Sunday, November 16, 2014

Feds explore eliminating private debt collectors for student loans

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Feds explore eliminating private debt collectors from student loan system. Terrific move. 
Saturday, November 15, 2014

On The Perils of Being a Policy-Engaged Academic

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Jon Gruber is getting a ton of heat for his comments on Obamacare, which were recorded in seminars. Jon was the intellectual architect of O...
Thursday, October 2, 2014

Is Revenue at Public Colleges Really Stagnant?

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I wrote in a recent column  in the New York Times that tuition at public colleges has doubled over the past 25 years but that, paradoxical...
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 ...