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 America Foundation for nailing this topic so well. This vignette, which Fishman draws from a piece
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 America Foundation for nailing this topic so well. This vignette, which Fishman draws from a piece
This short, well-written article puts rising college costs and student debt in perspective. College Tuition, Student Loans, and Unemployment : The New Yorker In this piece, Columbia professor Ray Fisman describes how a business uses a rando…
This short, well-written article puts rising college costs and student debt in perspective. College Tuition, Student Loans, and Unemployment : The New Yorker In this piece, Columbia professor Ray Fisman describes how a business uses a rando…
In the recent recession, men's earnings have fallen much more than women's. Since 2007, median male earnings have dropped 6% and median female earnings have dropped 0.9%. As a result, the ratio is at an all-time high: women now make 83¢ for…
Very cool use of statistics. Survivors of a sunken battle ship give disparate, 100-mile wide reports of where it sank, and there follow 70 years of unsuccessful searches. Statisticians plot the distribution of reported locations, use theory…
In the recent recession, men's earnings have fallen much more than women's. Since 2007, median male earnings have dropped 6% and median female earnings have dropped 0.9%. As a result, the ratio is at an all-time high: women now make 83¢ for…
I have been happily working with a killer set of co-authors recently: Josh Angrist, Parag Pathak and Chris Walters of MIT, Tom Kane of Harvard and Atila Abdulkadiroglu of Duke. We are writing a series of papers that evaluate the effect of c…
I have been happily working with a killer set of co-authors recently: Josh Angrist, Parag Pathak and Chris Walters of MIT, Tom Kane of Harvard and Atila Abdulkadiroglu of Duke. We are writing a series of papers that evaluate the effect of c…
A letter to parents was in my kids’ backpacks this week. It’s about whether teachers at their school and in their classrooms meet the No Child Left Behind Act’s standards for a qualified teacher. Being a data nerd, I was eager to see the st…
A letter to parents was in my kids’ backpacks this week. It’s about whether teachers at their school and in their classrooms meet the No Child Left Behind Act’s standards for a qualified teacher. Being a data nerd, I was eager to see the st…
While the nation has been storming and heckling and angst-ing over health insurance reform, there has been a productive conversation and quiet, steady progress toward reforming the federal student aid system. The direction of reform takes i…