Other Writing

Policy Reports

• Getting it Right: Design Principles for Student Loan Servicing Reform. Third Way Academix Paper, 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?