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Kristin Blagg

@kblagg

Education policy at @urbaninstitute. Western MA native.

 Washington DC
Joined May 2008
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Jason Cohn@js_cohn22 May 2025
House Republicans' proposed loan repayment plan would be a significant change from existing IDR options. @kblagg @delislealleges and I looked at what it would do to monthly and total payments, effects for families, and who could be better or worse off: urban.org/research/publicati…
House Republicans’ Proposed Income-Driven Repayment Plan for Student Loans

House Republicans’ Proposed Income-Driven Repayment Plan for Student Loans

In this brief, we analyze changes the House Committee on Education and the Workforce proposed to the income-driven repayment (IDR) plans for federal student …

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Lois Miller@Lois_Miller5 Nov 2023
🚨Job market paper thread! 🚨 Using an RD design and admin TX data, I estimate the effects of college transfers. I find negative earnings returns for marginal students who transfer from 2-yr to 4-yr colleges or 4-yr nonflagship to flagship college. users.ssc.wisc.edu/~lmmiller…
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chloe gibbs@chloergibbs22 Sep 2023
Cool job alert: jobs.nd.edu/postings/32067 @LEOatND is hiring for 3 research associate positions -- 1 starts now, & 2 to start in the summer. Use your analysis/coding/mgmt skills to fight poverty through rigorous research, identifying promising programs & policies! Job closes 10/6
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New @urbaninstitute paper: Measuring tuition-to-earnings instead of a debt-to-earnings for higher education accountability (i.e. the gainful employment regulation). urban.org/research/publicati…
Tuition-to-Earnings Limits: An Alternative to the Gainful Employment Rule for Higher Education...

Tuition-to-Earnings Limits: An Alternative to the Gainful Employment Rule for Higher Education...

Using data to examine the effects of several thresholds, we analyze a tuition-to-earnings test for the GE rule and compare it with the effects of the Biden a…

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#JUSTPUBLISHED - A new report from @UrbanInstitute and @FHLBankSF examines the complex role student loans play in the racial homeownership gap. urbn.is/3DULK4D
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.@CaryTLou in @routefifty: Maintaining support for children is critical, even during crises or economic distress, "because we know these programs have a positive long term impact on children and for the overall economy." urbn.is/3EolpOp

Federal Spending on Kids is Up, But Expected to Fall

Pandemic-era programs gave the funding a boost. As it phases out, more costs could shift to states and localities.

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The @NewAmericaEd team is hiring! Come join us to work on the intersection of safety net/higher ed issues, student loans, accountability, and more! newamerica.applytojob.com/ap…
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Elaine Maag@ElaineMaag30 Sep 2022
1/5 The @urbaninstitute's annual Kids' Share report has always been a favorite of mine - and this year, I joined the team! @CaryTLou , @hannahsumiko , and team find that once again, taxes are an enormous piece of spending on kids. Let's dig into this. urban.org/research/publicati…
Kids’ Share 2022: Report on Federal Expenditures on Children through 2021 and Future Projections

Kids’ Share 2022: Report on Federal Expenditures on Children through 2021 and Future Projections

To inform policymakers, children’s advocates, and the general public about how public funds are spent on children, this 16th edition of the annual Kids’ Shar…

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From @js_cohn & @caityoung11: The proposed changes could speed up the path to homeownership for some student loan borrowers—particularly borrowers of color—by lowering DTI ratios, allowing them to save more for down payments, & improving credit histories urbn.is/3BFLvum
Bar graph showing Black borrowers are likely to benefit most from student debt relief

ALT Bar graph showing Black borrowers are likely to benefit most from student debt relief

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The greying of student debt creates financial instability for those who are preparing to retire, and has broader implications for generational wealth. Some older Americans have been unable to repay their debt and have seen interest pile up over time: urban.org/research/publicati…
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Some of this debt also comes from Parent PLUS, where parents take out debts for their dependent children, pushing two generations into debt. Parent PLUS debt is included in the forgiveness plan. urban.org/research/publicati…

Reshaping Parent PLUS Loans: Recommendations for Reforming the Parent PLUS Program

The Parent PLUS loan program, introduced during the 1980 reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, was designed to help high-asset families who needed liq…

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Student debt forgiveness is not just for millennials. About 19 percent of those receiving full federal student loan debt relief from Biden’s forgiveness plan are 50 or older. That’s 2.7 million borrowers.
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Emily Gutierrez: "It's going to be harder to take something away from families than it is to decide to give it to them in the first place." (via @stephanie_h) urbn.is/3AxmnoU

For 2 years, there was such a thing as a free lunch — at public schools. Not anymore.

The pandemic relief program that provided free meals was an outlier in the 75-year history of the federal school lunch program.

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.@kblagg: “A bachelor’s degree can change a person’s earning trajectory more dramatically than a high school diploma, but interventions to support high school graduation are likely to help more people.” urbn.is/3QkhdCj
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Researchers use FRLP eligibility as a proxy for the share of students from low-income families in schools, but these data can be inconsistent. Emily Gutierrez, @chingos, and I built a new statistical measure, MEPS, to compensate for these differences: urban.org/research/publicati…
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You find and use the MEPS data on our Education Data Portal: educationdata.urban.org/data…
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Finally, if you’re wondering about pronunciation of this new measure, we’ve taken to this interpretation:
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