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98 lectures, interviews and podcast episodes on Education, recommended by Hoover Institution, Freakonomics, Economics Explained. The most-recommended is “How General Motors Invests in People #OnlyInAmerica”.

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How General Motors Invests in People #OnlyInAmerica

Hoover Institution · 2026
via Hoover Institution
1:05 h

Meritocracy, Exams, and the Knowledge that Matters

Hoover Institution · 2026
via Hoover Institution
1:04 h

Alison Gopnik on Childhood Learning, AI as a Cultural Technology, and Rethinking Nature vs. Nurture

Conversations with Tyler · 2025
via Conversations with Tyler
21 min

What Makes College Opportunity Fair? | Caroline Hoxby

Hoover Institution · 2026
via Hoover Institution
23 min

The Real Trade-Offs in Education Policy | Caroline Hoxby

Hoover Institution · 2026
via Hoover Institution
16 min

The Economics of Better Teacher Pay | Caroline Hoxby

Hoover Institution · 2026
via Hoover Institution
1 min

Niall Ferguson on Nikole Hannah-Jones's School Choice #GoodFellows

Hoover Institution · 2026
via Hoover Institution
46 min

America’s Mid-Life Mortality Gap

Hoover Institution · 2026
via Hoover Institution
1:01 h

AI in Education and the Workplace: A Case for Optimism with Tyler Cowen

Hoover Institution · 2026
via Hoover Institution
1:11 h

Thomas Sowell on School Choice and the Price Our Children Pay for Bad Ideas | Hoover Institution

Hoover Institution · 2026
via Hoover Institution
🎧 01:04:52

The Death of Reading (with James Marriott)

EconTalk · 2026
via EconTalk
1:14 h

Classrooms as Workplaces: How Student Composition Affects Teacher Health | Hoover Institution

Hoover Institution · 2026
via Hoover Institution
3 min

Twenty Million Left Behind: Nigeria’s Broken Education Policies | Hoover History Lab | Gift Iyioku

Hoover Institution · 2026
via Hoover Institution
1 min

School Absenteeism: Missed Days & Missed Opportunities | Intellections

Hoover Institution · 2025
via Hoover Institution
58 min

America’s Class Struggle: Eric Hanushek on Learning Declines and Hope for Revitalizing Education

Hoover Institution · 2025
via Hoover Institution
1:17 h

The Inframarginal Returns to College | Hoover Institution

Hoover Institution · 2026
via Hoover Institution
53 min

Why Some Highly Educated Women Choose to Have Many Children

Hoover Institution · 2025
via Hoover Institution
5 min

The Immigrant Effect in US Schools | Policy Stories with Paola Sapienza

Hoover Institution · 2025
via Hoover Institution
1:16 h

Test Score Gaps and Time Use | Hoover Institution

Hoover Institution · 2025
via Hoover Institution
1:15 h

Demographic Impacts + Family Dynamics | Remote Work | Hoover Institution

Hoover Institution · 2025
via Hoover Institution
1:28 h

Education At A Glance | The State of Education Worldwide | Hoover Institution

Hoover Institution · 2025
via Hoover Institution
53 min

Michael Hartney on the Federal Role in Education, Outcomes v. Totems, and Union Clout

Hoover Institution · 2025
via Hoover Institution
53 min

What We Know About Teachers and School Choice featuring Paul E. Peterson - Part 2/2

Hoover Institution · 2025
via Hoover Institution
42 min

What We Know About Our Schools and Achievement featuring Paul E. Peterson - Part 1/2

Hoover Institution · 2025
via Hoover Institution
48 min

Immigration and the Education of US-Born Children | Economics, Applied

Hoover Institution · 2025
via Hoover Institution
27 min

Econ To Go | Financial Literacy: Get ahead or fall behind

Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) · 2026
via Stanford SIEPR
1 min

Immigrant Students in American Classrooms | Economics, Applied

Hoover Institution · 2025
via Hoover Institution
1:25 h

Hoover Institution Education Summit: The Education Futures Council Report

Hoover Institution · 2025
via Hoover Institution
1:10 h

Hoover Institution Education Summit: The Road to the Present: The Nation’s School Reform Journey

Hoover Institution · 2025
via Hoover Institution
1:10 h

Hoover Institution Education Summit: The Road to the Present: The Nation’s School Reform Journey

Hoover Institution · 2025
via Hoover Institution
51 min

173. Steve Levitt Says Goodbye to People I (Mostly) Admire | People I (Mostly) Admire

Freakonomics Radio Network · 2025
via Freakonomics
51 min

172. A New Kind of University | People I (Mostly) Admire

Freakonomics Radio Network · 2025
via Freakonomics
14 min

How Massachusetts Became the Richest State in the USA

Economics Explained · 2025
via Economics Explained
15 min

The High Cost of Low Skills: Why Unskilled Workers are Punished in the United States Ch.1 | HISPBC

Hoover Institution · 2024
via Hoover Institution
15 min

Education Interrupted: Temporary Learning Losses, Lifetime Earnings Losses Ch.2 | HISPBC

Hoover Institution · 2024
via Hoover Institution
1:00 h

160. How to Help Kids Succeed | People I (Mostly) Admire

Freakonomics Radio Network · 2025
via Freakonomics
46 min

Arne Duncan Says All Kids Deserve a Chance — and Criminals Deserve a Second One (Update) |...

Freakonomics Radio Network · 2025
via Freakonomics
1:02 h

A Bronx Tale: Ian Rowe on the Fight for Charter Schools | GoodFellows

Hoover Institution · 2023
via Hoover Institution
1:19 h

Are Connections the Way to Get Ahead? Social Capital, Student Achievement, Friendships, and Mobility

Hoover Institution · 2024
via Hoover Institution
49 min

Reading Dostoevsky Behind Bars (Update) | People I (Mostly) Admire

Freakonomics Radio Network · 2025
via Freakonomics
56 min

149. Stanford’s President Knows He Can’t Make Everyone Happy | People I (Mostly) Admire

Freakonomics Radio Network · 2025
via Freakonomics
1 min

A Recipe for Effective School Accountability | Intellections

Hoover Institution · 2023
via Hoover Institution
7 min

First reactions | Joshua D. Angrist, prize in economic sciences 2021 | Telephone interview

Nobel Prize · 2021
via Nobel Prize - Economic Sciences
1:14 h

The Effect of Postsecondary Institutions on Local Economies: A Bird’s-Eye View | Hoover Institution

Hoover Institution · 2023
via Hoover Institution
1:06 h

143. Why Are Boys and Men in Trouble? | People I (Mostly) Admire

Freakonomics Radio Network · 2024
via Freakonomics
1:33 h

The Exceptional Results of Sensible Teacher Salary Reforms

Hoover Institution · 2023
via Hoover Institution
57 min

An Economist Looks at 90: Thomas Sowell on Charter Schools and Their Enemies

Hoover Institution · 2020
via Hoover Institution
3 min

Esther Duflo, Prize in Economic Sciences 2019: Student Q&A on education

Nobel Prize · 2022
via Nobel Prize - Economic Sciences
33 min

The future of employment with Joseph Stiglitz, Laureate in Economic Sciences 2001

Nobel Prize · 2021
via Nobel Prize - Economic Sciences
33 min

Thomas Sowell talks about his new book Economic Facts and Fallacies

Hoover Institution · 2008
via Hoover Institution
30 min

The future of employment with Christopher Pissarides, Laureate in Economic Sciences 2010

Nobel Prize · 2021
via Nobel Prize - Economic Sciences
58 min

Education, Economics—and Woodpeckers | The GoodFellows: Conversations From The Hoover Institution

Hoover Institution · 2020
via Hoover Institution
21 min

Skills Wars Are the New Trade Wars

Economics Explained · 2023
via Economics Explained
53 min

How Policies Make Interest Groups: Governments, Unions, and American Education | Hoover Institution

Hoover Institution · 2023
via Hoover Institution
58 min

134. Why Do We Still Teach People to Calculate? | People I (Mostly) Admire

Freakonomics Radio Network · 2024
via Freakonomics
16 min

Why More Education Is Not Always Better

Economics Explained · 2023
via Economics Explained
41 min

Eric Hanushek And Margaret Raymond: COVID-19 And Schools | Hoover Virtual Policy Briefing

Hoover Institution · 2020
via Hoover Institution
41 min

188. Why Do Kids Today Get So Many A’s? | No Stupid Questions

Freakonomics Radio Network · 2024
via Freakonomics
5 min

Part I: American students' woeful math proficiency

Hoover Institution · 2013
via Hoover Institution
1:23 h

What the Students for Fair Admissions Cases Reveal About Racial Preferences

Hoover Institution · 2022
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