S9 Ep41: Making teenagers read newspapers

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Jul 17, 202620:29Science & Medicine

French teenagers carry a smartphone with access to almost anything, but few of them have been using it to read the news. Julia Cagé (Sciences Po, CEPR) ran an experiment to test the one barrier everyone assumes matters m...

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