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Nate Hilger on The Parent Trap
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55 minutes
Released:
Jul 13, 2022
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Podcast episode
Description
On this episode of The Report Card, https://www.aei.org/profile/nathaniel-n-malkus/ (Nat) interviews https://www.natehilger.com/bio (Nate Hilger), author of https://www.amazon.com/Parent-Trap-Overloading-Parents-Inequality/dp/0262046687/ref=sr_1_1?crid=5MJ2CDZF2A8&keywords=the+parent+trap+hilger&qid=1657735366&sprefix=the+parent+trap+hilger%2Caps%2C42&sr=8-1 (The Parent Trap: How to Stop Overloading Parents and Fix Our Inequality Crisis). Prior to writing The Parent Trap, Nate was a professor of economics at Brown University, a Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a lead policy consultant on early childhood and non-K12 child development issues for Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign.
Nat and Nate discuss why disparities in life outcomes are not mainly attributable to disparities in schools, why relying too heavily on parents to develop skills in children will perpetuate inequalities, big data in education, the lessons of Perry Preschool and Abecedarian, skill transmission in Asian American communities, why we need to spend more on education R&D, Cora Hillis, what a study about the management practices of businesses in India can teach us about parenting, the IRS databank, Childcare with a capital 'C', the decision to have five or more kids, universal pre-k, and more.
Show Notes:
https://www.amazon.com/Parent-Trap-Overloading-Parents-Inequality/dp/0262046687/ref=sr_1_1?crid=5MJ2CDZF2A8&keywords=the+parent+trap+hilger&qid=1657735366&sprefix=the+parent+trap+hilger%2Caps%2C42&sr=8-1 (The Parent Trap: How to Stop Overloading Parents and Fix Our Inequality Crisis)
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/3257291-why-do-we-provide-so-much-more-support-to-the-old-than-the-young/ (Why do we provide so much more support to the old than the young?)
https://www.natehilger.com/blog/sheppard-towner (The 100-year legacy of America’s first big national investment in families)
https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/126/4/1593/1923939?redirectedFrom=fulltext (How Does Your Kindergarten Classroom Affect Your Earnings? Evidence from Project Star)
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20150295 (Parental Job Loss and Children's Long-Term Outcomes: Evidence from 7 Million Fathers' Layoffs)
Nat and Nate discuss why disparities in life outcomes are not mainly attributable to disparities in schools, why relying too heavily on parents to develop skills in children will perpetuate inequalities, big data in education, the lessons of Perry Preschool and Abecedarian, skill transmission in Asian American communities, why we need to spend more on education R&D, Cora Hillis, what a study about the management practices of businesses in India can teach us about parenting, the IRS databank, Childcare with a capital 'C', the decision to have five or more kids, universal pre-k, and more.
Show Notes:
https://www.amazon.com/Parent-Trap-Overloading-Parents-Inequality/dp/0262046687/ref=sr_1_1?crid=5MJ2CDZF2A8&keywords=the+parent+trap+hilger&qid=1657735366&sprefix=the+parent+trap+hilger%2Caps%2C42&sr=8-1 (The Parent Trap: How to Stop Overloading Parents and Fix Our Inequality Crisis)
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/3257291-why-do-we-provide-so-much-more-support-to-the-old-than-the-young/ (Why do we provide so much more support to the old than the young?)
https://www.natehilger.com/blog/sheppard-towner (The 100-year legacy of America’s first big national investment in families)
https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/126/4/1593/1923939?redirectedFrom=fulltext (How Does Your Kindergarten Classroom Affect Your Earnings? Evidence from Project Star)
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20150295 (Parental Job Loss and Children's Long-Term Outcomes: Evidence from 7 Million Fathers' Layoffs)
Released:
Jul 13, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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