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Most education leaders introduce a policy reform with reasonable confidence. The logic seems sound. The research backing it exists. Stakeholders have signed off. Then implementation begins, and reality diverges from the plan in ways…
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After years of working with organizations trying to track workforce participation, I’ve noticed a consistent pattern: what looks like a simple metric on paper…
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I have spent years watching well-intentioned policies produce results that bear little resemblance to what their architects envisioned. A new grading system meant to…
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Putting a number on unpaid work is one of those problems that looks straightforward until you actually try to do it. I’ve watched researchers…
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I’ve watched this process unfold dozens of times across different education systems, and it rarely looks like the neat pipeline most people imagine. A…
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Anyone who has tried to document household labour quickly encounters a peculiar problem: the work resists being counted. Not because it doesn’t happen –…
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Over the past fifteen years of working with labor datasets, I’ve noticed that the most revealing insights about women’s economic participation rarely come from…
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Employment policy and family policy exist in the same ecosystem, yet they’re rarely designed as if they do. I’ve watched organizations and governments implement…
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Official employment statistics are clean, quantifiable, and almost entirely misleading. After years of working with labor data and talking to people across different work…
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Measuring the economic value of unpaid care has become a central concern across research institutions, statistical agencies, and policy organizations. The challenge is not…
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