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Closing the Achievement Gap: Is There an App for That?

Children whose parents have college degrees are often more skilled readers than children whose parents didn't attend college. In this episode of The Pie, Harris Policy Professor Ariel Kalil discusses how certain technologies can help improve literacy skills for disadvantaged children.

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  Deadly Prescriptions: What Happens When Doctors Compete for Patients

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  An Extra Slice of the Pie, with James Robinson: History, Politics, and the…

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  Economics Meets Ecology: The Huge Costs of Ecosystem Declines

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  How Do Buyouts Impact Hospital Performance? Evaluating the Role of Private…

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  What Can the North Dakota Railroad War of 1905 Tell Us About Regulating Mo…

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  Understanding the Fed: How Perception Drives Market Reactions

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  Promises Delivered? The Economic Effects of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

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  Creative Destruction: Why Innovation is Crucial for Growth

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  Using Machine Learning to Predict—and Prevent—Police Misconduct

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  What Went Wrong With Federal Student Loans?

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  The Uncertainties of Climate Change

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  Using Cellphone Data to Observe Religious Worship in the United States

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  India’s Economic Future

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  ChatGPT: Who’s Adopting, Who’s Abstaining, and Why?

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  Is College Worth It? Measuring the Returns to Higher Education

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  Fighting Traffic in Chicago: Lower Fares, More Trains, Fewer Buses