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Basil Halperin
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Basil Halperin's personal blog at basilhalperin.com covers economics and ai. Since 2015, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “School and Teen Suicide”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Basil Halperin's essay on school and teen suicide, which reports that suicide among 12 to 18 year olds drops during school breaks. Commenters cite it as evidence that school affects teen mental health.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I am an assistant professor of economics at the University of Virginia. My research focuses on AI, macroeconomic growth, and monetary policy.
Most-linked posts?
- School and Teen Suicide2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-04-05
What Hacker News says?
This is ridiculous. The CDC doesn’t care about teenagers’ mental health. They’re using this specific effect as an argument for something they actually care about. School is itself deleterious to teenagers’ mental health. School causes suicide. This is as you would expect from an institution that constrains them from doing what they want and following their interests, that is hostile to their autonomy as such. > What…
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on “The state finally letting teens sleep in”Submitted Loss aversion is not what we think it is as a story · 60 points
HN discussionOne sad fact I learned about adolescent suicide (12 to 18 years of age) is that it's seasonal. It picks up during the school year and drops precipitously during summer and winter vacations. Being in school has a profound impact on whether or not a child wants to kill themselves. http://basilhalperin.com/essays/school-and-teen-suicide.html
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on “Youth Suicides Declined After Creation of National Hotline”Submitted School and Teen Suicide as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis doesn't surprise me. The problems with school that cause teen suicide don't go away just because you've taught kids to meditate. And, yes, there is something about school that causes teenagers to kill themselves. Somebody actually documented this and published a paper in Economics of Education Review[0]: There's data that suggests that the teen suicide rate drops when school is out. Basil Halperin has more[1].…
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on “Mindfulness in schools does not improve mental health, study finds”Submitted When Does Automating AI Research Produce Explosive Growth? [pdf] as a story · 1 points
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