brave people indeed joining me now is my colleague michael kruger here to talk about an extraordinary story indeed that was made into a documentary film and got an oscar now before we see the seat here behind yeah yeah going to the oscars before we see a bit of the film tell us about the but because this is a true story yeah well the whole story started with an english teacher and has. students at a school in los angeles. and the papa school in india it's and that flicks production twenty six minutes full of emotion hope and love for really strong women and girls. and the school topic was in the beginning how men stray sharon changes the life of a girl and how different the situation is in india this group of quite normal american girls were just thinking about how they started to learn to handle demonstration and that they had so many opportunities here we are we see the girls because of the background education freedom and wealth they have first period months sometimes perhaps missing one day in school but in india that often means the end of classes for ever period should be the en

we are joined by peter coy and michael mckee, both of whom knew turface or kruger over minute -- newr over several decades. peter, he was obviously known as a labor economist, among other things, and it great work from terrorism related economics to the gig economy. what are your best memories of alan? peter: he had a stellar career. he was the chief economist in delivered apartment under president clinton, the head of the council of economic advisers under president obama. labor economics was his specialty, but i would say what he is probably most women but for is his work on the minimal wage, finding that contrary to what you will find in any economy 101 textbook up until his work, it is not true that raising minimum wage necessarily kills jobs. he looked across the border between new jersey and pennsylvania as the natural experiment. one raised minimum wage, and one didn't, invest food. he found they did not have -- in fast food. he found they did not have the expected effect. that research and following research to corroborate and extend it helped make the case for the higher men