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18 May 2018, 1:00 am
I recently wrote about the evolution of economics--and law & economics--from fields that focused on assumptions and priors to fields that emphasizes data, causal inference,... [read post]
16 Apr 2018, 4:31 am
Democrats in Colorado recently voted overwhelmingly to reject public school privatization and deregulation efforts (charter schools). Chalkbeat reports: "Delegates at the Colorado Democratic state assembly... [read post]
6 Apr 2018, 10:44 am
Many alarmist narratives suggest that federal student loans are going to lead to a fiscal crisis for the federal government unless loan limits are capped,... [read post]
26 Jul 2016, 10:57 am
In 2015, Professor Benjamin Barton of the University of Tennessee estimated for CNN.com, and Business Insider that attorneys working in solo practice earn an average... [read post]
28 Oct 2015, 4:46 pm
This weekend, The New York Times Editorial Board published a sensationalist lead editorial, “The Law School Debt Crisis,” claiming that law student borrowing is harmful... [read post]
5 Mar 2016, 12:51 pm
That’s the question Frank McIntyre and I try to answer in Value of a law degree by College Major. Economics seems to be the “best”... [read post]
27 Jan 2016, 11:22 am
Based admittedly on just superficial inquiry, Simkovic's work on these issues strikes me as plausible [read post]
31 Jul 2015, 9:37 am
The Wall Street Journal’s recent story about law-school funded jobs is a good example of the slant that has pervaded its law school coverage for... [read post]
12 May 2015, 9:47 am
Critics of competitive scholarships tied to GPA or class rank claim that these scholarships are especially troubling when used by law schools, because the mandatory... [read post]
18 Jul 2017, 3:00 am
Occupational licensing regimes can help markets function when those markets suffer from what Economist George Akerlof coined a “lemons” problem. In a lemons market, it... [read post]
17 Nov 2017, 4:06 am
Following up on my previous post, Republican Tax Hikes Target Education, Erin Rousseau, a neuroscience graduate student at MIT, writes in the New York Times:... [read post]
Student loan borrowers with the highest debt levels have the lowest default rates (Michael Simkovic)
1 Sep 2015, 5:15 pm
From economist Susan Dynarski in the New York Times. [read post]
31 Jul 2017, 7:29 pm
California is an extreme outlier in the extent to which it restricts entry into the legal profession compared to other U.S. jurisdictions. Two examples of... [read post]
6 Sep 2018, 5:50 pm
In the Chronicle of Higher Education, Yale philosophy Professor Jason Stanley warns about rising neo-fascist tendencies around the world and related efforts to deligitimize universities.... [read post]
26 Apr 2017, 1:48 pm
Kathleen Engel (Suffolk), Jonathan Glater (U.C. Irvine), and 13 more legal scholars and economists who study higher education and consumer finance have submitted a comment... [read post]
11 Apr 2018, 8:29 am
In the Guardian, Fordham's Zephyr Teachout argues that members of Congress let the CEO of Facebook off easily and essentially treated his hearing as an... [read post]
27 Mar 2018, 4:00 am
Higher Education could soon become substantially more expensive to finance. The federal government may reduce how much it lends to its most profitable borrowers—graduate and... [read post]
9 Feb 2016, 4:00 am
The latest unscientific fad among law school watchers is comparing job openings projections for lawyers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics* with the number of... [read post]
29 Oct 2015, 11:58 am
Dean Nick Allard of Brooklyn Law School writes: [T]he New York Times editorial . . . “The Law School Debt Crisis,” . . . is... [read post]
24 Apr 2018, 1:40 pm
In today's New York Times, Professor Krugman writes about the war on education. Krugman's generally smart post overlooks an important part of the story. Many... [read post]
