Smart Money: Education Investments in Adolescents Earn Higher Returns


Caroline Hoxby, professor of economics at Stanford University and one of the world’s leading scholars in the field of education economics, says investing in education in early adolescents can have profound impacts on the continuation of learning through teenage years and beyond. More education leads to social cohesion, advancing economic opportunity, reducing inequality and decreasing geographic and political polarization.

Learn more about the importance of early education and how the brain of adolescents primes them for learning. Jan-Werner Müller, Erik Hurst, and Silvia Bunge also join in the discussion.

Watch Smart Money: Educational Investments in Adolescents Earn Higher Returns.