October, 2008

Closing Questions

by Bryan Caplan
The Conversation
October 22nd, 2008

Before this conversation ends, I’d like to press Charles Murray and Pedro Carneiro on signaling:
For Charles: In your view, why precisely does the market financially reward students for taking lots of classes that at best seem distantly related to job performance?  You don’t seem ready to sign on to my signaling story.  Do you have [...]

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More Closure than Usual

by Charles Murray
The Conversation
October 22nd, 2008

Give me changes in the direction that Kevin Carey and Pedro Carneiro suggest in their most recent posts, and I’ll retire to the sidelines a happy man.

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Improving College at the Margins

by Pedro Carneiro
The Conversation
October 21st, 2008

I agree that IQ, or at least some good measure of cognitive achievement, largely determines whether you succeed or not in college, although other factors can also play a role. And some people have more of it than others, so college is not for everyone. But for a large set of individuals, getting a BA [...]

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Let’s Make Academic Records More Informative

by Kevin Carey
The Conversation
October 20th, 2008

Let me suggest something that perhaps we can all agree on, convictions about IQ aside. We need a higher education system that produces much more accurate information about the students it enrolls and educates.
The standard degree consists of only two useful pieces of information printed on a single sheet of paper: the type of degree [...]

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