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The student loan system has "layers and layers of dysfunction"

Jan 6, 2021 "The student loan system has 'layers and layers of dysfunction'" podcast

As President-elect Joe Biden mulls forgiving $10,000 in student loan debt — and leading Democrats and others on his left push for more — one of our listeners wants to know: What would that do to the economy, and is it even possible for the White...

Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS)

Timing is money: Does lump-sum payment of tax credits induce high-cost borrowing?

Jun 17, 2015, 11:30 am-1:00 pm EDT

Weill Hall, Room 3240

A presentation by Katherine Michelmore, postdoctoral fellow at Education Policy Initiative

Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS)

Effects of rural education finance reform on education expenditure in China

Jan 7, 2015, 8:30-10:00 am EST

Weill Hall, Room 3240

A presentation by Wei Ha, Research Professor of Education, Peking University

EPI Working papers

School Finance Reforms, Teachers' Unions, and the Allocation of School Resources

June 1, 2018

Joshua Hyman, Eric Brunner, Andrew Ju

School finance reforms caused some of the most dramatic increases in intergovernmental aid from states to local governments in U.S. history. We examine whether teacher unions affected the fraction of reforminduced state aid that passed through to...

EPI Working papers

Student Aid Simplification: Looking Back and Looking Ahead

February 1, 2012

Susan Dynarski, Mark Wiederspan

Each year, fourteen million households seeking federal aid for college complete a detailed questionnaire about their finances, the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). At 116 questions, the FAFSA is almost as long as IRS Form 1040 and...