Risk-sharing: An efficient mechanism for funding student loan safety nets (Beth Akers, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/research/risk-sharing-an-efficient-mechanism-for-funding-student-loan-safety-nets/

Should college come with a money-back guarantee? (Beth Akers, Stuart M Butler, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/should-college-come-with-a-money-back-guarantee/

College education and student debt: Evaluating the investment (Beth Akers, Adrianna Pita, Jonathan Rothwell, Brookings)

http://www.brookings.edu/research/podcasts/2016/06/college-education-and-student-debt

Making college less risky to boost social mobility (Beth Akers, Brookings)

“Higher education, more than ever, is the ticket to the middle class.” So said President Obama last year.

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Increase social mobility by reducing risk in higher education (Beth Akers, Brookings)

Higher education is often seen as an important enabler of upward social mobility. President Obama remarked last year that “higher education, more than ever, is the ticket to the middle class.”

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Beth Akers. Brookings, Fellow, Economic Studies,Center on Children and Families, Brown Center on Education Policy

Taking the long view: Budgeting for investments in human capital (Beth Akers, Isabel V. Sawhill, Brookings)

Tomorrow, President Obama unveils his last budget, and we’re sure to see plenty of proposals for spending on education and skills. In the past, the Administration has focused on investments in early childhood education, community colleges, and infrastructure and research. From a budgetary standpoint, the problem with these investments is how to capture their benefits as well as their costs.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/social-mobility-memos/posts/2016/02/08-budgeting-investments-human-capital-akers-sawhill

More data can make college less risky (Beth Akers, Jonathan Rothwell, Brookings)

http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2016/01/21-more-data-make-college-less-risky-akers-rothwell

What can Jeb's plan do for higher education? (Beth Akers, Brookings)

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/social-mobility-memos/posts/2016/01/18-what-can-jeb-plan-do-higher-education-akers