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Policy Choices for Health and Education: A Little Economics Goes a Long Way

Submitted by Hoyt Bleakley on Tue, 06/23/2009 - 12:17.

At the University of Chicago, we often say that “a little economics goes a long way” in understanding a problem. Hopefully this post is an example of that motto. Here I set out a simple framework and use it to think about the economic impact of different human-capital policies.

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