Bruce Sacerdote: The Economist Who Studies People

How much does parenting make a difference for a kid's success? Does it really matter which college you go to? How can we get more kids to graduate college? These are the questions my guest on The Sydcast this week has spent years digging into to. Bruce Sacerdote, a prominent economist and professor at Dartmouth College who you may have read about in The New York Times, among other places, goes about answering these questions the old-fashioned way. Like a detective who studies the facts to get at the truth, Bruce digs into the data to provide insights on topics that almost everyone cares about. In this week’s episode of The Sydcast, we learn all about Bruce, some of the questions he asks and answers he finds, and even a few stories about sunken Spanish shipwrecks loaded with treasures.