Education

• Ignore the sticker price: How have college prices really changed? By Phillip Levine, Brookings, April 12, 2024
  
• That Giant College ‘Sticker’ Price Isn’t What Most Students Pay By Ann Carrns, The New York Times, April 12, 2024
  
• Why Is Paying for College So Complicated? By Ron Lieber, The New York Times, January 18, 2024
  
• How Do I Pay For College? Your questions, answered by experts. By The New York Times, January 12, 2024
  
• New SAT Data Highlights the Deep Inequality at the Heart of American Education By Claire Cain Miller, The New York Times, October 23, 2023 
• Homeschooling Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO), YouTube, October 4, 2023
  
• What Most American Schools Do Wrong By Adam Grant, The New York Times, October 22, 2023
  
• Americans Are Losing Faith in the Value of College. Whose Fault Is That? By Paul Tough, The New York Times Magazine, September 5, 2023
  
• When Financial Independence Isn’t Always the Goal By Sara Murphy, The New York Times, September 2, 2023 [Many Iranian Americans say their families place a high premium on education — sometimes at the expense of early financial independence — potentially complicating their financial futures.]
• Opinion Why colleges hide the truth about tuition (it isn’t as high as advertised) By George F. Will, The Washington Post, August 30, 2023 
• The Truth about College Costs By Dan Currell, National Affairs, Number 56, Summer 2023
  
• Let’s Stop Pretending College Degrees Don’t Matter By Ben Wildavsky, The New York Times, August 21, 2023
  
• Study of Elite College Admissions Data Suggests Being Very Rich Is Its Own Qualification By Aatish Bhatiya, Claire Cain Miller, and Josh Katz, The New York Times, July 24, 2023
• American universities have an incentive to seem extortionate The Economist, July 23, 2023
  
• Trump’s Justices Didn’t Doom Affirmative Action. Demography Did. By Christopher Caldwell, The New York Times, June 8, 2023
  
• College is remade as tech majors surge and humanities dwindle By Nick Anderson, The Washington Post, May 20, 2023
  
• You Learn the Value of a College Degree When You Live Without One By Christopher Zara, The New York Times, April 26, 2023
  
• Opinion Bottom line, a college degree is worth the cost and then some By Christopher L. Eisgruber, The Washington Post, April 26, 2023
  
• The College Data You Probably Can’t Find, but Definitely Need By Ron Lieber, The New York Times, April 15, 2023
  
• Affirmative action in college admissions doesn’t work — but it could By Roland G. Fryer, Jr., The Washington Post, October 30, 2022
  
•  Stanford Law Introduces Income-Share Agreements By Josh Moody, Inside Higher Ed, September 19, 2022
  
• Princeton to cover all college bills for families making up to $100,000 By Nick Anderson, The Washington Post, September 8, 2022
  
• The most-regretted (and lowest-paying) college majors by Andrew Van Dam, The Washington Post, September 2, 2022 
  
• What Is School For? The New York Times, September 1, 2022 [Collection of opinion articles]
  
• Want to fix the federal student loan system? Kick out scammy schools. By Catherine Rampell, The Washington Post, August 29, 2022
  
• Why I Changed My Mind on Student Debt Forgiveness By Susan Dynarski, The New York Times, August 30, 2022
  
• Why Student Debt Relief Isn’t Elitist By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, August 29, 2022
  
• Biden’s Student Loan Plan Sets Off Fierce Debate Among Economists By Jim Tankersley, The New York Times, Aug. 30, 2022
  
•  Student debt: Is a degree worth the financial strain? By David Pogue, CBS Sunday Morning, YouTube, May 15, 2022
  
• I Am Not Proof of the American Dream By Tara Westover, The New York Times, February 2, 2022 
• “Educated” Author: College Is Unaffordable and Unimaginable Amanpour and Company, YouTube, February 9, 2022
  
• Drop in college enrollment threatens to cause long-term economic, social consequences By Jon Marcus, The Washington Post, January 22, 2022
  
• More Women Than Men Are Going to College. That May Change the Economy. By Justin Wolfers, The New York Times, November 23, 2021
  
• The Fight Over Tenure Is Not Really About Tenure By Molly Worthen, The New York Times, September 20, 2021
  
•  Should More Student Loan Borrowers Use Income-Driven Repayment Plans? by Sarah Gunn, Nicholas Haltom and Urvi Neelakantan, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Economic Brief, June 2021, No. 21-20
  
• More colleges and universities outsource services to for-profit companies By Jon Marcus, The Washington Post, Jan. 8, 2021
  
• More info is available about which college majors pay off, but students aren’t using it By Jon Marcus, The Washington Post, Dec. 25, 2020
  
• More people with bachelor’s degrees go back to school to learn skilled trades By Jon Marcus, The Washington Post, November 20, 2020 
• College Choices and Success: Four Questions for an Economist By Kristie Engemann, Open Vault Blog, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, November 18, 2020
  
• For Millions Deep in Student Loan Debt, Bankruptcy Is No Easy Fix By Ron Lieber and Tara Siegel Bernard, The New York Times, Nov. 7, 2020
  
• The Only Way to Save Higher Education Is to Make It Free By Claire Bond Potter, The New York Times, June 5, 2020
• Don’t Kid Yourself: Online Lectures Are Here to Stay By Robert H. Frank, The New York Times, June 5, 2020
• The End of College as We Knew It? By Frank Bruni, The New York Times, June 4, 2020
• Risky Strategy by Many Private Colleges Leaves Them Exposed By Kevin Carey, The New York Times, May 28, 2020
  
• Remember the MOOCs? After Near-Death, They’re Booming  By Steve Lohr, The New York Times, May 26, 2020
• Income Share Agreements Looking Up  by Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution (blog), May 22, 2020
• Joshua Angrist: On charter schools, the elite illusion, and the "Stones Age" of econometrics Interview by David A. Price, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Econ Focus, First Quarter 2020
• Is Going to College Worth it?: VICE Podcast 031 Vice, YouTube, February 5, 2014