DanglyRaccoon

Could you provide the sources for the claim that student-teacher ratio improves learning? I’ve always heard the data to support that conclusion are weak at best, so I’d love to see what convinced you otherwise.

Great article Emily!

You used the example of a reduction in earnings of ~1%, which is $280 on a $45k income. I’d be curious to break up the earnings reduction by income bracket, to see if the reduction in earnings tends to affect certain income brackets more than others (obviously higher incomes have greater room for disparity).

Also, it’d be nice to see what the confidence interval is on that 1% estimate.

Thanks for a great post.

With regards to the lengthening of menstrual cycles as a result of COVID and COVID vaccines, you conclude that there “is no reason to think there would be any fertility impacts as a result”, but I wonder if that might not be the whole story.

Since the average increase was only 1 day, I think I can agree that on average, there wouldn’t be an impact, but what about the rest of the distribution? For example, if some people experience a much longer lengthening, even though it’s rare in the population as a whole, could we not plausibly hypothesize that those people might experience an impact on fertility?