Welcome to the Learning Carver podcast.

I'm your co-host, Alicia Thomas Sarsi, and joined by our other co-host, Dr. Albert Chang.

Albert, how are you?

Hey, Alicia, doing good.

Hope everyone else is, you know, if they celebrated Easter, hope they had a nice Easter or Passover or whatever

it is or nothing. I hope we're all doing well. Yes, agreed. All of it is okay. Whatever you

celebrate, I hope you've had some good food and time with family and friends over the last few days. How about that?

That's right. Yep. Well, we've got an interesting show today on a topic

that is always interesting for me. So I'm looking forward to that. And I always like talking to Jim

Blue, another friend joining us as well. So I'm excited about that. But of course, before we get to

our guests, we've got to talk about our stories of the week. What do you have?

Well, I've got an interesting article that I found in the Atlantic by Rose Horowitz.

The title is what an Ivy League education really gets you. Economists have a new theory of why

graduates of top colleges have so much career success. And,

you know, Alicia, I know the Valley of Higher Ed is in question today. And certainly the Ivy

League institutions have been getting a lot of attention. And of course, is this question of

why do graduates of Ivy League post-secondary institutions do so well career-wise?

And I'm sure you've heard of some possible explanations.

You know, is it like the name brand with some of these institutions that employers love it,

seeing a Penn or a Yale or Harvard on a diploma maybe?

Or is it just selection?

Is it just, hey, look, these colleges are

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