Chapter 3 of the ERP also cites research by AESG Director Melissa S. Kearney, Policy Director Luke Pardue & AESG author Phil Levine, which finds that the rising costs of housing and child care cannot account for the decline in births in the US.
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Following last summer’s SCOTUS decision, class-based affirmative action may seem like a viable alternative, but Sarah Reber and I provide evidence that it’s unrealistic because of the cost. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…

The main thing to take away from this article is that we charge lower-income students ($0 EFC) far too much ($15,000?) for college. We can talk about an $80,000 sticker price for higher-income students, but this clearly doesn’t work.
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Yikes. This is going to be a difficult admissions season. nytimes.com/2024/01/01/you…

Will colleges be able to maintain racial diversity without race-based affirmative action programs. Class-based advantages could help, but schools probably can’t afford them. Check out our latest research (with Sarah Reber). brookings.edu/articles/can-c…

So happy to see this paper w/ Phil Levine on the ways in which the FAFSA treatment of wealth exacerbates the racial wealth gap among above-median income families in Journal of Policy Analysis and Management! Thanks to conference discussants and anonymous referees for helping to make the paper better.

This should be getting more attention in the college pricing media coverage. insidehighered.com/news/students/…

Check out the difference between the URL and the headline. Guess which one is accurate? The story is behind a paywall, but let’s just say this isn’t a great example of media ethics.

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At some point we need to recognize that the entire system of paying for college is broken and needs to fixed. College needs to be affordable and schools need money to provide a quality education. How do we do both? Brookings Econ⁩ NASFAA ⁦Natl Association for College Admission Counseling⁩
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“Most colleges and universities are organized as nonprofit institutions with a social mission. Charging exorbitant prices to any student, even very wealthy ones, would violate those principles,” Phil Levine writes. brookings.edu/articles/how-m…

Are those running higher education issues really doing a bad job? Maybe they just face bad options. My recent Brookings commentary asks why is the system failing and what can we do to fix it?
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For many students in families with incomes roughly between about $60k and $200k who have siblings in college at the same time, financial aid awards may go down significantly next year.

A new interactive by Phil Levine can show you by how much: brook.gs/3O1l9Ie

College affordability is not about the high sticker price that high-income students pay. Most students receive financial aid. But even after factoring that in, lower- and middle-income students are asked to pay too much. That’s the real problem.

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Seems like every month or so there is another essay suggesting that US births are down bc the price of having kids has gotten too expensive in the US over the past 15 yrs or so.

A look at data & evidence just doesn’t really support that explanation…

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Thanks to The New York Times and Ann Carrns for covering my work with Jill Desjean on FAFSA simplification. Click on the link in the article for a simulation. NASFAA Brookings Econ The Brookings Institution
New FAFSA Form Is Coming, Along With Changes in College Aid nytimes.com/2023/08/11/you…

Really happy to have this in print in Journal_PopEcon!

Thank you to the editor & anonymous referees for questions and comments that led to a much better paper. w/ Phil Levine

I'm confused why the news coverage on affirmative action today misses this important language: universities may not simply establish through application essays or other means the regime we hold unlawful today.