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A well-thought-out proposal for scaling tutoring at a national level. Momentum is growing...

Over a year after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, student learning loss remains a pressing policy concern, writes Philip Oreopoulos. High-dosage tutoring presents a promising solution: bit.ly/2So18SZ #Education

A podcast about my ongoing research about tutoring and computer assisted learning: teaforteaching.com/205-tutoring/

Congratulations to David Card, my advisor, mentor, and friend, for receiving the Nobel Prize today.

The in-game performance of professional soccer players who had a recent COVID-19 infection, drops by 6%. Performance is still 5% lower 6 months later with notable negative spillovers on team performance. Cool paper by W. Benedikt Schmal & James Reade: dice.hhu.de/fileadmin/reda…

I don’t get the decision by Ontario last week to keep open schools and then close them a few days later – the case-count trajectory situation was predictable – nothing has changed to affect this prediction.

I don’t see how the decision to close schools will make the marginal difference around what happens with hospitalizations. Is Ont expecting to slow the rate of infection so that anyone who becomes hospitalized will do so over a longer spread? I don't think this will work.

The evidence is clear that virtual schooling cannot support student learning in the same way as in-person learning. Canadian governments should take this into account, write Clare Halloran, Rebecca Jack, @jcokun1 & Emily Oster. bit.ly/3pStB1v #cdnpoli #EconTwitter

Really wish someone else was tracking this. Seems important when we're keeping 2 million Ontarians in the 5-19 age group from going to school.

StatsCan has a podcast, how cool is that? Even a cool name (Eh Sayers). First episode is on inflation. statcan.gc.ca/en/sc/podcasts…

Drop everything and read this paper: nber.org/system/files/w… The bottom line: Managers with MBAs are the best at taking money from workers and not much else. The findings are damning of business schools, business education, & business "optimizing" practices.

Excited about my new Canadian textbook with Kevin Milligan, Betsey Stevenson, and Justin Wolfers. Economics has added so much to its repertoire. It's exciting to be involved in bringing new applied and theoretical ideas to the next generation.

Covid learning loss is real and large. We need a way to scale up personalized learning to help every student get back on track from where they're currently at, and catch up at their own pace. The Pandemic Erased Two Decades of Progress in Math and Reading nytimes.com/2022/09/01/us/…

Intensive employment support services in Canada increased long-term welfare recipients’ annual earnings by 20–27 percent over 20 years, from Gustavo J. Bobonis, Aneta Bonikowska, Philip Oreopoulos, W. Craig Riddell, and Steven P. Ryan nber.org/papers/w30405

Distinguished Economics Professor Philip Oreopoulos shows us how educational policies can improve students’ economic futures by offering a little personal assistance. He headlines the BMO Public Lecture Series on November 10th. Join us in-person ow.ly/EkUJ50L2kGc

In November SFU Economics hosted Philip Oreopoulos from University of Toronto to talk about the power of personal assistance with Krishna Pendakur. Thank you David and Cecilia Ting and BMO for supporting this event, and SFU Public Square. A recording of the talk is available at: ow.ly/F8By50M2zIv

Honored to have participated in the Conversations on Economic Inclusion series from the Cleveland Fed. We talked about how tutoring and mentoring programs can be effective tools for bridging educational gaps and boosting achievement. Listen or read now: bit.ly/48pYpev

Disclosing nonbinary pronouns reduces positive employer response by 5.5pp, and this decline is larger in Republican communities. By Taryn Eames, our brilliant PhD student 👇 github.com/taryn-eames/Re…

research on tutoring picking up...issue is not whether personalized learning is an effective strategy for how best to help kis, but go to get students to actually receive it at scale. educationnext.org/two-sigma-tuto…

Had fun talking with my friend Scott Cunningham the other day about life as an economist and life in general. causalinf.substack.com/p/s4e20-philip…