Policy Reports
- A First Look at 2024-2025 FAFSA Race and Ethnicity Data, with Brent Evans & Julia Turner. US Department of Education OCE Working Paper 2024-009, 2024.
- Educational Institutions poised to meet the workforce needs generated by the Investing in America Agenda, with Julia Turner, Matthew Guzman, & Shaun Dougherty. US Department of Education Blog, 2024 .
- Where Do Borrowers Who Benefit from Public Service Loan Forgiveness Work?, with Julia Turner & Kathryn Blanchard. US Department of Education OCE Working Paper 2024-008, 2024.
- An Overview of Graduate Borrowing and Outcomes, with CJ Libassi, Michel Grosz, Sophie McGuinness, & Jordan Matsudaira. US Department of Education OCE Working Paper 2024-007, 2024.
- Trends in Undergraduate Postsecondary Program Enrollment through the COVID-19 Pandemic, with Michel Grosz, Jordan Matsudaira, & Kevin Stange. US Department of Education OCE Working Paper 2024-005, 2024.
- Targeted Outreach and Borrower Engagement, with Kristin Blagg and Lesley Turner. US Department of Education Blog, 2024.
- Behavioral Nudges Prevent Delinquencies at Scale: A 13-million Person Field Experiment, with Robert Kuan, Kristin Blagg, Benjamin Castleman, Jordan Matsudaira, Katherine Milkman, & Lesley Turner. US Department of Education OCE Working Paper 2024-003.
- The Earnings and Employment of Certificate Earners in Kentucky, with Chuanyi Guo & Youngran Kim. Report prepared for the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education, 2022.
- Getting it Right: Design Principles for Student Loan Servicing Reform. Third Way Academix Paper, 2021.
- Certificates Awarded in Kentucky, 2005-06 to 2018-19, with Youngran Kim. Report prepared for the Kentucky Council of Postsecondary Education, 2021.
- Who Earns Certificates in Kentucky? 2005–2006 to 2018–2019, with Youngran Kim. Report prepared for the Kentucky Council of Postsecondary Education, 2021.
- Credit Standards in the PLUS Student Loan Program: Examining Access and Equity (with Stephanie Riegg Cellini & Dubravka Ritter). Brookings Institution Report, 2020.
- Federal Student Loan Servicing Accountability and Incentives in Contracts, with Andrew Sullivan. Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Discussion Paper DP20-05, 2020.
- The Opioid Crisis and Community-level Spillovers onto Children’s Education, with John Tyler. Brookings Institution Report, 2020.
- What Happens to Students When the Federal Government Sanctions Colleges? Third Way Academix Paper, 2019.
- Different Degrees of Debt: Explaining Student Borrowing in the For-Profit, Non-Profit, and Public Sectors, with Stephanie Cellini. Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution Policy Brief, 2016.
Blog Posts
- The (false) promise of college student loan debt letters
- The government is sanctioning for-profit colleges. What happens to the students?
- The for-profit student debt dilemma
- The unique challenges working students confront when seeking financial aid
- Should student loans be dischargeable in bankruptcy?