1) Via the excellent Bari Weiss, an article from ProPublica and the New Yorker, on the devastating effects of COVID-related school closures on children, especially the poorest and most vulnerable of them. The effects on US inequality will be profound and will last for decades.
2) From the WSJ, it appears there is now a large gender gap in college-level education.(Hat tip: Ivo Welch; the article is also cited in Bari Weiss's Substack post, linked to above). The figures cited in the article are simply staggering. Combined with other diagnoses of the plight of young men (declining labor supply, increasing time spent playing video-games), the article makes for sobering reading.
Is the situation similar in other countries? I would guess the tendency is there, but less pronounced. China recently cracked down on gaming. Such a dramatic policy would not be feasible in Western democracies. In fact, it is not clear what policy intervention could address the issue effectively.
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