But certainly paying grandparents to do childcare seems way better than paying daycare centers to do childcare?
Well, who knows? Just from a bang-for-the-buck perspective, the answer depends on how much you have to pay grandparents for childcare, how much you have to pay kindergartners, how much quality differs and how many children each would supervise. As people have children at higher age, grandparents are older and probably cannot take as much stress as they could decades ago; as families are smaller, grandparents will take care of one or two children. (They could take care of children from outside the family, but then the question is whether you should make working more attractive and maybe subsidize for old people.)
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The researchers point to unexpected results in trials of school-based mental health interventions in the United Kingdom and Australia: Students who underwent training in the basics of mindfulness, cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy did not emerge healthier than peers who did not participate, and some were worse off, at least for a while.
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This is a case where it would be interesting to see what “underwent training” actually means. If, for example, they did not count the students who lost interest and only counted those who remained in the study, then I would expect exactly this result.
… Apparently Obamacare included a recommended annual screening of teen girls for depression and HHS also mandated a change in how hospitals code injuries. …
This would be very interesting if we knew if these are just random people explaining superficial interpretations on Twitter or people who really formed hypotheses based on reasonable readings of the data. I had heard that Haidt used international data and not just Obamacare data, but I don’t know.
Moreover, I would assume that Schizophrenia in particular is not a condition that nowadays you would just act like you have it and in former times people did not care because there was no Obamacare.
What is strange about the graph though is that the data is starting in 2008 and the rate is always a comparison to 2008.
Well, who knows? Just from a bang-for-the-buck perspective, the answer depends on how much you have to pay grandparents for childcare, how much you have to pay kindergartners, how much quality differs and how many children each would supervise. As people have children at higher age, grandparents are older and probably cannot take as much stress as they could decades ago; as families are smaller, grandparents will take care of one or two children. (They could take care of children from outside the family, but then the question is whether you should make working more attractive and maybe subsidize for old people.)
This is a case where it would be interesting to see what “underwent training” actually means. If, for example, they did not count the students who lost interest and only counted those who remained in the study, then I would expect exactly this result.
This would be very interesting if we knew if these are just random people explaining superficial interpretations on Twitter or people who really formed hypotheses based on reasonable readings of the data. I had heard that Haidt used international data and not just Obamacare data, but I don’t know.
Moreover, I would assume that Schizophrenia in particular is not a condition that nowadays you would just act like you have it and in former times people did not care because there was no Obamacare.
What is strange about the graph though is that the data is starting in 2008 and the rate is always a comparison to 2008.