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Disproportionate Burden: Estimating the Cost of FAFSA Verification for Public Colleges and Universities
(Annenberg Institute at Brown University, 2020-08-01)
Verification is a federally mandated process that requires selected students to further attest that the information reported on their FAFSA is accurate and complete. In this brief, we estimate institutional costs of ...
Can Information Widen Socioeconomic Gaps in Postsecondary Aspirations? How College Costs and Returns Affect Parents’ Preferences for their Children
(Annenberg Institute at Brown University, 2019-09-01)
To estimate whether information can close socioeconomic gaps in parents’ aspirations for their child’s postsecondary education, they administer a four-armed survey experiment to a nationally representative sample of U.S. ...
Looking Backward or Looking Forward? Exploring the Private Student Loan Market
(American Enterprise Institute, 2016-06-01)
Although federal loans dominate student lending, a small private student loan market still exists, comprising roughly 9 percent of the student loans disbursed in 2015. With the rise in delinquencies and defaults on federal ...
Washington’s College Bound Scholarship Program and its Effect on College Entry, Persistence, and Completion
(Annenberg Institute at Brown University, 2019-09-01)
Indiana, Oklahoma, and Washington have programs designed to address college enrollment and completion gaps by offering a promise of state-based college financial aid to low-income middle school students in exchange for ...
The Effect of Reduced Student Loan Borrowing on Academic Performance and Default: Evidence from a Loan Counseling Experiment
(Annenberg Institute at Brown University, 2019-06-01)
Student loan borrowing for higher education has emerged as a top policy concern. Policy makers at the institutional, state, and federal levels have pursued a variety of strategies to inform students about loan origination ...
Unlawfully Present Aliens, Higher Education, In-State Tuition, and Financial Aid: Legal Analysis
(2014-03-28)
State measures that would deny or provide access to public institutions of higher education, instate tuition, and financial aid to unlawfully present aliens have been challenged on various grounds. While these grounds can ...
Navigating Graduate School: Resource Guide for Undocumented Students
(Santa Clara Law Digital Commons, Immigration Law & Policy Practicum Projects, 2018)
This guide will detail the legal and practical concerns of undocumented students who are contemplating or currently pursuing a graduate school education. Each section is divided into important milestones that occur during ...
Loans for Educational Opportunity: Making Borrowing Work for Today’s Students
(The Hamilton Project, 2013-10-01)
In this article the authors propose a better model of loan repayment. A single, simple, income-based repayment system called Loans for Educational Opportunity (LEO) will replace the current, bewildering array of repayment ...
Balancing Risk and Responsibility: Reforming Student Loan Repayment
(American Enterprise Institute, 2015-11-01)
As federal student loan debt has grown, policymakers have put forward a number of ideas designed to help struggling borrowers keep up with their monthly payments. The goal of this article is therefore to step back from the ...
College Advising at a National Scale: Experimental Evidence from the CollegePoint initiative
(Annenberg Institute at Brown University, 2019-09-01)
In recognition of the complexity of the college and financial aid application process, and in response to insufficient access to family or school-based counseling among economically-disadvantaged populations, investments ...