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Using Government Data to Create A Statistical Portrait of Government Student Loans
An interesting paper that uses government administrative data to analyze student loans. A crisis in student loans? How changes in the characteristics of borrowers and in the institutions they attended contributed to rising loan defaults, by Adam Looney and Constantine Yannelis, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. BPEA Conference Draft, September, 2015. This paper examines the […]
FED study says many in debt, at risk, and cannot retire
Document of the Day. The results of a survey conducted on behalf of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System have been reported in the news recently. Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking Federal Reserve Board issues Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households FRB: Press Release (May 27, 2015). Report on […]
Current Awareness for Statistical Information
Two of the most useful current awareness tools I use to learn about new reports and developments are InfoDocket by Gary Price Full Text Reports by Gary Price and Shirl Kennedy. I only recently learned that they have another site that announces statistically-focused reports: StatFountain “A Sister Blog to FullTextReports” The announcement about StatFountain says: […]
New Data Tool for Trade and Investment Stats for Countries
The Department of Commerce announced a new data tool–International Trade and Investment Country Facts Application–on the Bureau of Economic Analysis website that gives users a snapshot of statistics on trade and investment between the United States and another country by simply clicking on a world map. BEA’s New Data Tool Provides Fast Access to Trade […]
Commerce Dept. Expands Data Access
The Commerce Department has announced a redesigned section of its website to better integrate its catalog of its more than 40,000 publicly available data sets into Commerce.gov via Data.Commerce.Gov. Commerce Announces Redesigned Website, Furthering Commitment to Expand Data Access U.S. Department of Commerce, Blog (April 20, 2015). Commerce Data Hub. The announcement says: Data.Commerce.Gov is […]
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