Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Bait –The History of American Colleges and the Creation of Student Loans -- Chapter 2: The Switch – Higher Education as a Public Goods Decays (1965-1992) -- Chapter 3: The Income and Wealth Effects of Student Loan Debt -- Chapter 4: Recent Changes to Student...

State and local policymakers are very interested in how attending college in one's home state affects the likelihood of living in that state after college. This paper uses cohort-level data from the American Community Survey, decennial censuses, and other sources to examine how birth-state...

Higher education policy potentially has an important role in improving intergenerational income mobility. We use rich administrative data to estimate a novel two-sided matching model of sorting into field and institution within higher education. We use it to simulate a wide set of policies aimed...