Best of #econtwitter - Week of November 23, 2025: paper summaries

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^“The bottom line? Keep calm and UJIVE on!”

^file under: ginormous if true,

When accounting for the impact of higher achievement historically on salaries, the lifetime earnings of today’s average student will be an estimated 8 percent lower than that of students in 2013. Because long-term economic growth depends on the quality of a nation’s labor force, the achievement declines translate into an average of 6 percent lower gross domestic product for the remainder of the century. The dollar value of this lower growth is over 15 times the total economic costs of the 2008 recession.

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