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A comment on Should children do more enrichment activities? Correcting for endogeneity.

Re:Should children do more enrichment activities? Correcting... by pocw on Saturday July 11, 2020 @10:06PM (#23808078)
But after-school programs DO cause a drastic drop in teen crime, alcoholism and substance abuse. Those effects are probably more important. https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families...
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Re:Should children do more enrichment activities? Correcting... by moltar on Saturday July 11, 2020 @10:35PM (#23808254)
But what is the mechanism of action here?

It’s probably just (1) added adult supervision, (2) lack of free time for those negative activities.

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Re:Should children do more enrichment activities? Correcting... by grugagag on Saturday July 11, 2020 @10:37PM (#23808269)
How about if they discover some books that turn out life changing.
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Re:Should children do more enrichment activities? Correcting... by awesome_dude on Saturday July 11, 2020 @10:49PM (#23808336)
Like the series by Carlos Castenada?

Or Huxley's Doors of our mind?

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Re:Should children do more enrichment activities? Correcting... by grugagag on Sunday July 12, 2020 @01:09AM (#23808997)
Yeah, why not?
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