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Browsing by Author "Chingos, Matthew M."

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    Are College Students Borrowing Blindly?
    Akers, Elizabeth J.; Chingos, Matthew M. (Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings, 2004-12-01)
    Improving the college search process by making college costs more transparent to potential students and their families is a primary focus of recent higher education policy efforts. This analysis, drawing on data from two sources that link student survey responses to administrative records on cost and borrowing, suggests that a significant share of undergraduate students do not understand how much they are paying for college or how much debt they are taking on.
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    Deconstructing and reconstructing the College Scorecard
    Russ Whitehurst, Grover J.; Chingos, Matthew M. (Economic Studies at Brookings, 2015-10-15)
    The federal government released earnings data on U.S. colleges and universities for the first-time last month. The new College Scorecard adds an important new dimension to previous government data collections on colleges and universities, which focused on inputs such as number of faculty and student characteristics and the immediate outcomes of retention and graduation rather than longer term outcomes including earnings in the labor market. The authors examine the extent to which the Scorecard provides reliable and valid data, discuss whether it should be used by students and the general public to identify schools that provide the biggest bang for the buck, and identify actions that this or a future administration could take to improve the functions that Scorecard is intended to serve.
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    Don't forget private, non-profit colleges
    Chingos, Matthew M. (Economic Studies at Brookings, 2017-02-16)
    Private, non-profit colleges enroll 3.4 million full-time equivalent students, or 30 percent of all U.S. students attending four-year institutions. But they receive comparatively little attention relative to public colleges and the for-profit sector, perhaps because the conventional wisdom casts private colleges based on the profile of the most elite institutions in the sector, which have large endowments and charge high tuition to mostly wealthy students. This report provides new descriptive information on private, non-profit colleges.
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    The Effects of the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program on College Enrollment and Graduation: An Update
    Chingos, Matthew M.; Monarrez, Tomás E.; Kuehn, Daniel (Urban Institute, 2019-02-01)
    The Florida Tax Credit (FTC) scholarship program, which provides private school scholarships to more than 100,000 low-income students annually, is the largest program of its kind in the country. This report expands on and updates the prior study in two important ways. First, whereas the prior study used enrollment data only from public colleges in Florida, this update draws on National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) data covering almost all US colleges (including private and out-of-state colleges). Second, this report includes college enrollment data through 2018 (rather than 2016), which allows to include additional students.
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    The Federal-State Higher Education Partnership How States Manage Their Roles
    Chingos, Matthew M.; Baum, Sandy (Urban Institute, 2017-05-16)
    State funding of public higher education is central to college access and affordability and to postsecondary educational attainment. State support translates into resources colleges and universities can spend on instruction and other activities or to charge lower tuition prices, especially to in-state students. Each state develops its own higher education systems and determines funding for public institutions and for financial aid for its students. Differences in institutional structures and funding models combine with economic and demographic differences to create sharp variation in the educational opportunities available to students across the nation. This brief describes differences across states in per student funding levels, distribution of funding across postsecondary sectors, systems for determining these funding patterns, and state grant aid offered to students who enroll in these institutions. It examines how these policies interact with federal subsidies for college students and how they further or counteract the goals underlying federal policies.
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    Reforming Federal Student Loan Repayment: A Single, Automatic, Income-Driven System
    Chingos, Matthew M.; Baum, Sandy (Urban Institute, 2017-09-01)
    The federal role in higher education has grown over the past two decades, and now a new administration has the opportunity to strengthen policies that support students and their colleges and universities. To help inform these decisions, the Urban Institute convened a bipartisan group of scholars and policy advisers to write a series of memos highlighting some of the most critical issues in higher education and recommending policy solutions. This report proposes a new system of income-driven loan repayment designed to address some of the problems with the current repayment options.
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    Rethinking Consumer Information in Higher Education
    Blagg, Kristin; Chingos, Matthew M.; Graves, Claire; Nicotera, Anna (Urban Institute, 2017-07-01)
    Providing better information on college quality to potential students and their families is a major focus of bipartisan higher education policy efforts. These efforts have focused on labor market outcomes, such as employment rates and average earnings, as indicators of college quality. Several state governments have published data on labor market outcomes by program of study (e.g., engineering) at different institutions within the state. This report summarizes the results of a three-year effort aimed at assessing the demand for and impact of program-level information on labor market outcomes. The authors developed an informational tool that displays academic major-level earnings and other key data points (including the average price charged, customized based on the user’s family income), piloted the tool at a set of Virginia high schools, and collected data to assess the tool’s impact on high school students’ college-going behavior.
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    Who would benefit most from free college?
    Chingos, Matthew M. (Economic Studies at Brookings, 2016-04-21)
    Free college is unlikely to see the light of day in today’s divided political environment, but is frequently in the news as a point of contention between the two leading contenders for the Democratic nomination for president. Bernie Sanders supports eliminating tuition and fees at public colleges, whereas Hillary Clinton favors increases in student aid targeted at low- and middle-income students. This report provides new evidence on which groups of students are likely to benefit the most from a policy that eliminates tuition and fees at public colleges and universities. Using nationally representative data on in-state students at public institutions, I find that students from higher income families would receive a disproportionate share of the benefits of free college, largely because they tend to attend more expensive institutions.