Saturday, August 9, 2014

Kids' Education and Parents' Longevity - Authors' Reply and Mine

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I posted a piece to the New York Times Upshot this week discussing   a paper by Esther Friedman of RAND and Rob Mare of UCLA.   The autho...
Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Dosage Matters. If It Doesn't, Your Study is LIkely Wrong

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A warning sign of a biased estimate of a treatment effect: no relationship between dosage and the outcome. In this study  highlighted in...
Saturday, April 5, 2014

PLUS loans are not student aid

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This article (link at end of post) does an amazing job of highlighting the problems with parental PLUS loans. Kudos to Rachel Fishman at New...
Tuesday, February 18, 2014

The (Fixable) Problem with Pay It Forward

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Cross-posted from the Hamilton Project blog : Michigan  has now joined  Oregon  in proposing a “Pay It Forward” student lending system ...
Saturday, December 14, 2013

Girls' Growing Advantage on PISA Tests

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There is a long history of academic articles and social commentary on boys' advantage on tests in math and science. Two low points: the ...
Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Proposal for Reforming Student Loan Repayment

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Last week I released, through the Hamilton Project of the Brookings Institution, a proposal for reforming the repayment of student loans. T...
Thursday, October 17, 2013

Postdoc Position in Education Research at Univ of Michigan

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We are looking for a great postdoc to work on our team here at University of Michigan. We have a tremendous set of resources for a recently-...