Kristin Blagg
Urban Institute
Washington, DC, United States
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How Student Loan Borrowers Have Changed since 2008
Compared with 2008, student loan borrowers today are older, carry more debt on average, are more likely to have middle or higher incomes, and benefit from more flexible student loan repayment policies, which has implications for how we build public policy for borrowers. → Read More
Which Students Receive a Greater Share of School Funding?
Explore which students experience higher average funding by household poverty status, geography, or race or ethnicity in each state—and how each share has changed. → Read More
How Will the New Pell Grant Formula Affect Students?
Pell simplification policies could improve educational outcomes for students from low-income families → Read More
How to Make Gainful Employment More Inclusive
For gainful employment to work, it needs to cover all eligible programs. → Read More
Who Is Taking New Student Loans during the Pandemic?
Student loan lending patterns look different this year. → Read More
How Might COVID-19 Affect Fall 2020 Higher Education Enrollment?
About 65 percent of college presidents identified fall 2020 enrollment numbers as a key issue for their campuses. As many schools return with virtual or limited face-to-face coursework, college enrollment patterns could change substantially. I use national data on higher education enrollment to understand how changes in certain student populations, such as international students or students… → Read More
Free for All?
Policymakers are considering federal free college programs. We show who would get free college and how such a program might change higher education. → Read More
Measuring Student Poverty: Dishing Up Alternatives to Free and Reduced-Price Lunch
For decades, state policymakers and researchers have used receipt of free and reduced-price lunch as a way to estimate student poverty, but changes to the program have made it a less reliable proxy. → Read More
Making Student Loan Repayment More Logical and Equitable
All proposals miss a critical factor: the amount repaid should depend on the amount borrowed. → Read More
Which students count as low income? New national data shine light on proxy for poverty
Whether a student receives a free or reduced-price lunch may no longer be the best indicator of whether a student is from a low-income family. → Read More
How do states send dollars to low-income students?
States can use many different ways to count low-income students and tie dollars to these student counts. → Read More
Which borrowers should be exempt from making payments on student loans?
Policymakers are divided on how much student loan borrowers should pay, and for how long, based on their income. → Read More
Student debt repayment fell during the Great Recession. Borrowers from low-income backgrounds saw the steepest decline
One-year student loan repayment rates dropped 14 percentage points after 2008. → Read More
The demographics of income-driven student loan repayment
Who are the growing number of student loan borrowers opting for income-driven repayment plans? → Read More
Who uses income-driven student loan repayment?
Enrollment in income-driven repayment plans has increased substantially over the past five years. → Read More
Charting Student Loan Repayment
The parameters of a repayment plan can affect how much borrowers pay. This tool shows how they affect the amount borrowers will pay and how long it will take to pay off the loan. → Read More
Disconnected from Higher Education
Approximately 3 million American adults lack access to both online and physical institutes of higher education. Research has identified "education deserts," where access to university campuses is limited by geography. This study is the first to examine the intersection of physical education deserts with online education deserts, where access to broadband needed for online education is limited.… → Read More
Three million Americans are disconnected from higher education
Expanding broadband to rural American communities could also expand educational opportunities. → Read More
How do school funding formulas work?
In public school funding, both the state's formula and the districts' behavior matter. → Read More
Making Sense of State School Funding Policy
State policymakers throughout the country are enacting or considering major reforms to how they fund public schools. School funding policy is complicated, in part because districts can respond in ways that may counteract state policymakers’ goals. This report provides an overview of how state school funding policy works, including how states measure student and district needs, how funding… → Read More