Papers & Publications

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Cheaper By the Dozen: Using Sibling Discounts at Catholic Schools to Estimate the Price Elasticity of Private School Attendance (with Jonathan Gruber and Danielle Li). NBER Working Paper 15461. 2009.

Into College, Out of Poverty? Policies to Increase the Postsecondary Attainment of the Poor (with David Deming). NBER Working Paper 15387. 2009

This working paper is forthcoming in Phil Levine and David Zimmerman, eds. Targeting Investments in Children: Fighting Poverty When Resources are Limited.

Informing the Debate: Comparing Boston's Charter, Pilot and Traditional Schools  (with Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Josh Angrist, Sarah Cohodes, Jon Fullerton, Thomas Kane, and Parag Pathak). Boston Foundation Research Report.  2009.

Raising College EnrollmentMilken Institute Review 10:3, pp. 37‐45. 2008

The Lengthening of Childhood (with David Deming).  Journal of Economic Perspectives 22:3, pp.71-92. 2008.

Slate    Atlantic Monthly    WSJ Online                  

Building the Stock of College-Educated Labor. Journal of Human Resources 43:3, pp 576-610. 2008.  

Chronicle of Higher Education

Complexity and Targeting in Federal Student Aid: A Quantitative Analysis (with Judith Scott-Clayton). Tax Policy and the Economy 22, pp. 109-150. 2008.

Focus Tax Incentives on Those Who Need Them. Chronicle of Higher Education. August 17, 2007.

The Economics of Student Aid. NBER Research Reporter. 2007.

College Grants on a Postcard: A Proposal for Simple and Predictable Student Aid (with Judith Scott-Clayton). Hamilton Project discussion paper. 2007.

New York Times    National Review    Chronicle of Higher Education  

Harvard Crimson    Educational Policy Institute

This proposal has been adopted by the Clinton, Obama and Richardson presidential campaigns.

The Feasibility of Streamlining Aid for College Using the Tax System (with Judith Scott-Clayton. National Tax Association Papers and Proceedings. 2007.

Simplify and Focus the Education Tax Incentives (with Judith Scott-Clayton). Tax Notes.2006.

The Cost of Complexity in Student Financial Aid:  Lessons from Optimal Tax Theory and Behavioral Economics (with Judith Scott-Clayton). National Tax Journal. 2006.

Chronicle of Higher Education    Forbes

Tax Policy and Education Policy: Collision or Coordination? A Case Study of the 529 and Coverdell Saving Incentives. Tax Policy and the Economy 18. 2004.

Who Benefits from the Education Saving Incentives? Income, Educational Expectations and the Value of the 529 and Coverdell. National Tax Journal. 2004.

Los Angeles Times    Newsweek

Harvard Gazette      Washington Post    Chronicle of Higher Education    

The New Merit Aid. in Caroline Hoxby, ed., College Choices: The Economics of Where to Go, When to Go, and How To Pay for It. 2004.  Data and Stata do-file

Washington Post  

Does Aid Matter? Measuring the Effects of Student Aid on College Attendance and Completion American Economic Review.   March 2003.

The Behavioral and Distributional Implications of Aid for College. American Economic Review.  May 2002

Loans, Liquidity and Schooling Decisions. Working paper. 2002

Hope for Whom? Financial Aid for the Middle Class and Its Impact on College Attendance. National Tax Journal. 2000. Data and Stata do-file