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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

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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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.

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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States must do more to ensure school and district leaders can access and use linked data. K–12 leaders need data across the P–20W pipeline to ensure they are allocating resources to prepare students for #collegeandcareer. More from @KeliaWashington: bit.ly/3zEstBf
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New piece on accountability for short-term credentials. I compare #CollegeScorecard outcomes of programs that pass current requirements for access to loans to those that fail. Many thanks to @urbaninstitute Learning Curve team for their support of my work!
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Reminder D.C. #EconTwitter, tomorrow 6pm at @metrobar 🍻
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D.C. #EconTwitter it has been too long since we've gotten together. Let's head to @metrobardc next Thursday May 19th at 6pm. Right off the Rhode Island Avenue (🔴) metro stop. As always, all are welcome. 🍻
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From Sandy Baum & @kblagg: "Policymakers can simplify and strengthen need-based state grant programs to make them more accessible to and effective for students with lower incomes." urbn.is/3Ouo7UO

Simplification Cannot Be the Only Goal of Student Aid Reform

Combining merit- and need-based state grant aid programs can seem attractive because of the simplicity but risks denying sufficient aid to the students who n…

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Teacher diversity is good for students big and small. What role do state policies play in shaping it in #PreK? @GraceLuetmer and I explore for @urbaninstitute's The Learning Curve. urban.org/research/publicati…
State Policies Shape the Racial and Ethnic Diversity of the Prekindergarten Workforce

State Policies Shape the Racial and Ethnic Diversity of the Prekindergarten Workforce

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, hiring and retaining high-quality early care and education (ECE) educators was difficult. ECE has minimum preservice quali…

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New interactive: Explore how barriers and social interventions influence mobility and inequality urbn.is/3qnco00
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The first line says it all: "Millions of students may not receive the food assistance they need this summer." Timing is Everything for Students Needing Summer Food Support: urbn.is/3rV8qg9 via @urbaninstitute
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Explore which students experience higher average funding by household poverty status, geography, or race or ethnicity in each state—& how each share has changed. What's happening in your state? urbn.is/35KofOa

Which Students Receive a Greater Share of School Funding?

Explore which students experience higher average funding by household poverty status, geography, or race or ethnicity in each state—and how each share has changed.

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In a state-by-state graphic, @urbaninstitute breaks down the effects of expanding the child tax credit, which would reduce child poverty to less than 10% in almost every state. Child poverty for Black children would be cut in half, writes @KevinWerner127. urban.org/urban-wire/covid-1…
Graphic of child poverty by state

ALT Graphic of child poverty by state

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