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Family Property Values Predict Quality Of Colleges Attended

How much does the value of your parents’ home predict where you go to college? More than one might think, economist Michael Lovenheim argues in a new working paper from the National Bureau of Economics. Until recently, mainstream assumptions gave a lot of credence to the notion that students need a lifetime of resources to […]

To Make College Shopping Easier, White House Launches “Know Before You Owe”

It’s not every day that the US Secretary of Education calls me wanting to talk, but on Tuesday afternoon that’s just what happened.  When I asked Secretary Duncan what he wanted to talk about, he said, “college affordability.” Earlier that day he, Vice President Joe Biden, and Consumer Financial Bureau Director Richard Cordray kicked off […]

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