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12 Jun 2015, 6:00 am
The Department of Education has been overcharging low-risk professional school students for federal student loans (relative to the market rate) while keeping rates low for... [read post]
12 May 2015, 1:02 pm
In the Wall Street Journal, Professor Adam Levitin of Georgetown argues yes for private student loans and no for federal student loans, since the latter... [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]
10 May 2015, 6:54 pm
There is a wide range of views about the benefits, costs, and appropriate use of conditional merit scholarships—scholarships that under their terms, will only be... [read post]
7 May 2015, 7:28 pm
One question in the labor economics literature is why education increases earnings. [read post]
7 May 2015, 2:30 pm
Having been one of the people who brought attention to the issue of conditional scholarships a few years ago, I feel compelled to offer a few insights on a rekindled conversation about conditional scholarships involving Jeremy Telman and Michael Simkovic... [read post]
5 May 2015, 10:33 am
Over on Brian Leiter's Law School Reports, Michael Simkovic asks whether conditional scholarships are good for law students. [read post]
5 May 2015, 5:33 am
In her latest post, Deborah Merritt maintains that scholarships conditioned on maintaining a minimum GPA or class ranking are troubling when used by law schools,... [read post]
4 May 2015, 11:52 am
Many critics have attacked law schools for offering merit scholarships that can only be retained if students meet minimum GPA requirements. [read post]
29 Apr 2015, 9:20 pm
A number of critics have argued against extrapolation from Professor Merritt’s study of the Ohio legal market to the national legal market. [read post]
29 Apr 2015, 5:30 am
I imagine many students thinking about law school saw it; you might want to also take a look at this commentary by law professor Michael Simkovic at my law blog. [read post]
27 Apr 2015, 3:09 pm
Just when you thought The New York Times was rounding the corner and starting to report responsibly about legal education based on hard data and... [read post]
23 Apr 2015, 6:18 pm
This latest smear from Crazy Campos was directed at Michael Simkovic, whose grandparents, by the way, were Holocaust survivors. [read post]
18 Apr 2015, 2:54 am
The new discussion has been prompted by a series of posts by Michael Simkovic on Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports in... [read post]
17 Apr 2015, 10:54 am
As Michael Simkovic details here and elsewhere (and... [read post]
17 Apr 2015, 9:32 am
The new discussion has been prompted by a series of posts by Michael Simkovic on Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports in which he summarizes and elaborates on his work with Frank McIntyre in two recent articles, “The Economic Value of a Law Degree” and “Timing Law School. [read post]
14 Apr 2015, 2:45 am
Deborah Jones Merritt (Ohio State), Clueless About Salary Stats (Apr. 11, 2015) Michael Simkovic (Seton Hall), Offsetting Biases (Apr. 11, 2015) Paul Campos (Colorado), The First Rule of Law School Employment Statistics (Apr. 13, 2015) Stephen Diamond (Santa Clara), The Elephant in the Room Spooks Colorado Law’s Paul Campos (Apr.... [read post]
11 Apr 2015, 2:21 pm
Deborah Merritt and Kyle McEntee conflated “response rates” with nonresponse bias and response bias. [read post]
10 Apr 2015, 10:59 am
Did law schools behave unethically by providing employment and earnings information without simultaneously reporting survey response rates? [read post]
9 Apr 2015, 8:04 am
For those not already following Michael Simkovic's posts at Leiter's Law Reports, I suggest you do so if you are at all interested in the question of how we should measure law school outcomes. [read post]
