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Working Paper — Navigating Higher Education Insurance: An Experimental Study on Demand and Adverse Selection
A survey-based experiment in collaboration with the Philadelphia Federal Reserve.
Policy Brief: On the tax liability red herring currently influencing Congressional debates on the child tax credit
"If changes to the CTC must go to families who owe federal income taxes, it would prevent most low-income working...
Policy Brief: Responding to critics of the new Child Tax Credit proposal
Will the Child Tax Credit reforms disincentivize work? Evidence suggests it will not.
Policy brief: Analysis of the new Child Tax Credit proposal
Timely analysis of a Congressional proposal.
New Research in Millennial Student Debt: Relief for Borrowers with Negative Amortization
JFI's Higher Education Finance team publishes the first installment of part 14 of their flagship Millennial Student Debt research series.
New Report: The Impact of Families with No Income on an Expanded Child Tax Credit
Breaking down the benefits of the expanded CTC by income group.
Press Release: Student Debt and Homeownership Barriers in Washington, D.C.
A new collaborative report from the Jain Family Institute (JFI) and the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) sheds light on the...
Atlantic Council policy memo: “How to strike a grand bargain on EU nuclear energy policy”
JFI fellows Jonah Allen and Théophile Pouget-Abadie are co-authors on this policy memo as part of our affiliate initiative...
Atlantic Council policy memo: “A NATO-style spending target could fund long-term decarbonization”
JFI fellow Théophile Pouget-Abadie wrote this memo as part of our affiliate initiative with the Atlantic Council.
New Report: Guaranteed Income through the Child Tax Credit
"We estimate that these credits will likely be durable additions to state benefits and will increase cash assistance over the...
New Research in Millennial Student Debt: The Repayment Pause and the Continuing Crisis of Non-Repayment
JFI's Higher Education Finance team finds striking positive effects of the pandemic-era student loan repayment pause.
Atlantic Council brief: “Clean industrial policies: A space for EU-US collaboration”
JFI fellows Jonah Allen and Théophile Pouget-Abadie wrote this brief as part of our affiliate initiative with the Atlantic...
New paper: Exploring Data as and in Service of the Public Good
Co-authored by the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA), Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, Jain Family Institute, UN Global Pulse,...
Homeownership and the Student Debt Crisis: Latest research from the Millennial Student Debt project
The eighth report in JFI’s student debt project, the research explores links between rising student debt and declining homeownership...
Claudia Sahm on evidence for $1400 relief and recovery checks
Drawing on over a decade of research, JFI Senior Fellow Claudia Sahm presents evidence in favor of additional $1400 checks for...
New Research in Millennial Student Debt: How Schools Lie
In "How Schools Lie: The Deceptive Financial Aid System at America's Colleges," JFI researchers explore how higher education institutions mislead...
New Release: Opportunity in Crisis: New Polling on Public Opinion Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
The first of three polling briefs, "Opportunity in Crisis" is part of JFI's Messaging Guaranteed Income project
Marshall Steinbaum publishes new student debt research; Brookings event
A report focusing on three student debt–related outcomes: total individual balances, total required monthly payments, and whether an individual...
Friederike Schuur on Data Networks for UN Global Pulse
Schuur, a joint fellow with JFI and United Nations Global Pulse, provides an overview of her research
Creating a cash button: new op ed in Insider from Stephen Nuñez and Rachel Black
"The government needs a better system so getting cash to people isn't so painfully slow."
Herman Mark Schwartz writes on the dollar and empire for Phenomenal World
The economic historian writes on how the US dollar shapes both geopolitical power and wealth inequality nationwide.
Phenomenal World publishes “Trade Wars are Class Wars” interview
Economists Michael Pettis and Matthew Klein in conversation with historian Adam Tooze on the groundbreaking new book, "Trade Wars are...
Blog: On “UBI & the City”
JFI's Guaranteed Income Project Lead, Stephen Nuñez, produced an illuminating blog on Phenomenal World, explaining the JFI-supported macroeconomic model...