In the News: Decline in Self-employment

Nationally acclaimed economist, Elliot Eisenberg, Ph.D. stated on his blog yesterday that despite the variety of Internet apps for working remotely, self-employment has declined. Today it is 6.5% as opposed to 7.7% in 2005 and 8.5% in 1995.

You can read his 70-word blog post on the topic at http://econ70.com/2015/09/10/shrinking-self-employment/

Do you find it odd that despite better technology, fewer people are self-employed?

Graphs and Laughs: Impact of Missing School

From nationally acclaimed economist Elliot Eisenberg, Ph.D's blog, Graphs and Laughs:

While school closures for bad weather may hurt student achievement, absenteeism profoundly hurts achievement. Each one-day increase in absenteeism lowers math scores by 5% of a standard deviation! Schools deal with school-wide closures by adding days or speeding up the curriculum, but can't do so with absenteeism. Rather than experimenting with costly and unproven longer days or longer school years, reduce truancy! It's low hanging fruit!

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