I wrote a little bit about the argument that the college wealth premium has functionally gone away among recent cohorts. I'm quite skeptical and don't think that it has. t.co/GVN6ZcWNW7

There's no more college wealth premium?

I doubt it strongly.

I started thinking about this in response to Tough's NYT Magazine article last month: "But younger white college graduates — those born in the 1980s — had only a bit more wealth than white high school graduates born in the same decade" t.co/ShLQMrLjuz

Americans Are Losing Faith in the Value of College. Whose Fault Is That?

For most people, the new economics of higher ed make going to college a risky bet.