Eric P Bettinger,Angela Boatman,Bridget Terry Long
Eric P Bettinger
Low rates of college completion are a major problem in the United States. Less than 60 percent of students at four-year colleges graduate within six years, and at some colleges, the graduation rate is less than 10 percent. Additionally, man...
Susan Dynarski,Judith Scott-Clayton
Susan Dynarski
In the nearly fifty years since the adoption of the Higher Education Act of 1965, financial aid programs have grown in scale, expanded in scope, and multiplied in form. As a result, financial aid has become the norm among college enrollees....
Philip Oreopoulos,Uros Petronijevic
Philip Oreopoulos
Despite a general rise in the return to college, likely due to technological change, the cost-benefit calculus facing prospective students can make the decision to invest in and attend college dauntingly complex. Philip Oreopoulos and Uros ...
Sandy Baum,Charles Kurose,Michael McPherson
Sandy Baum
This overview of postsecondary education in the United States reviews the dramatic changes over the past fifty years in the students who go to college, the institutions that produce higher education, and the ways it is financed. The article...
Lisa Barrow,Thomas Brock,Cecilia Elena Rouse
Lisa Barrow
Michal Grinstein-Weiss,Trina R Williams Shanks,Sondra G Beverly
Michal Grinstein-Weiss
For poor families, the possession of assets--savings accounts, homes, and the like--has the potential not only to relieve some of the stress of living in poverty but also to make a better future seem like a real possibility. If children in ...
Carolyn J Heinrich
Carolyn J Heinrich
Since modern welfare reform began in the 1980s, we have seen low-income parents leave the welfare rolls and join the workforce in large numbers. At the same time, the Earned Income Tax Credit has offered a monetary incentive for low-income ...
Greg J Duncan,Katherine Magnuson,Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal
Greg J Duncan
Families who live in poverty face disadvantages that can hinder their children's development in many ways, write Greg Duncan, Katherine Magnuson, and Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal. As they struggle to get by economically, and as they cope with su...
Sherry Glied,Don Oellerich
Sherry Glied
Parents' health and children's health are closely intertwined--healthier parents have healthier children, and vice versa. Genetics accounts for some of this relationship, but much of it can be traced to environment and behavior, and the env...
Neeraj Kaushal
Neeraj Kaushal
Better-educated parents generally have children who are themselves better educated, healthier, wealthier, and better off in almost every way than the children of the less educated. But this simple correlation does not prove that the relatio...