I wish I was kidding. But Blattman points us to this BE Press paper, "The Causal Effect of Studying on Academic Performance" by
Ralph Stinebrickner and Todd R. Stinebrickner. The paper was also the recipient of the BE Press's Arrow Prize. Here's the provocative finding: being assigned (randomly) to a roommate who brings to college a video game lowers first semester GPA by an amount that is equal to a standard deviation decrease in the student's own ACT score. Ouch.
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