538 and we will viciously attack seth and the book he has produced. Seth will get the opportunity to defend the supplemental will take questions from the audience and follow the same procedure. Seth, do you want to go first . Thanks dan for the introduction and for inviting me to this panel and this is a book , everybody lies about five years of research i have been doing. I will describe what it is and for the last 80 years if you want to know what people want, why people did the things they did, what people are going to do you have basically one main approach. You ask them. You conduct a randomized survey said gallup or peel or quinnipiac will go out and ask people questions and there is a main problem with this approach which is that people tend to lie and surveys to make themselves look good. If you ask people immediately before an election are you planning to vote the overwhelming majority of americans in the survey will say sure i want to vote in the election. They dont want to a
First things first, id like to welcome beth to the Manhattan Institute where shes recently become a fellow. Prior to joining us, she was a fellow at the Brookings Institution center on children and families, and before that she was a taffe economist staff economist at the president s council of economic advisers and worked extensively on Higher Education policy. Second, id like to welcome beth back to new york. Beth received her ph. D. In math excuse me, her b. A. In math and economics from cunyalbany and her ph. D. From columbia university. Beths here to talk about her book, game of loans. Recently published by Princeton University press and written with matthew of the urban institute. So after reading beths book, i can assure you shes going to fit right in at the Manhattan Institute [laughter] where the scholars really delight in debunking poorly argued narratives in the press and the public debate. And beths book does just that. Its a timely corrective to the wildly exaggerated stud
First things first, id like to welcome beth to the Manhattan Institute where shes recently become a fellow. Prior to joining us, she was a fellow at the Brookings Institution center on children and families, and before that she was a taffe economist staff economist at the president s council of economic advisers and worked extensively on Higher Education policy. Second, id like to welcome beth back to new york. Beth received her ph. D. In math excuse me, her b. A. In math and economics from cunyalbany and her ph. D. From columbia university. Beths here to talk about her book, game of loans. Recently published by Princeton University press and written with matthew of the urban institute. So after reading beths book, i can assure you shes going to fit right in at the Manhattan Institute [laughter] where the scholars really delight in debunking poorly argued narratives in the press and the public debate. And beths book does just that. Its a timely corrective to the wildly exaggerated stud
Good afternoon. Thank you ladies and gentlemen, for turning out on a cold, late fall day. I can assure you its going to be worth your time. Im daniel disalvo, an associate professor of Political Science at city college of new york and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute here its my pleasure today to introduce our speaker, beth akers. So first things first id like to welcome beth to the Manhattan Institute wishes result become a fellow. Prior to joining us she was a fellow at the Brookings Institution center on children and families. And before that she was a staff economist at the president s council of economic advisers, and worked extensively on Higher Education policy. Second, i like to welcome beth back to new york. Beth received her ph. D in math excuse me, her ba in math and economics from suny albany at a ph. D in economics from columbia university. So beth is here today to talk about her book, game of loans the rhetoric and reality of student debt. Recently published by
Or parts of institutions to challenge ourselves to be more rigorous in identifying the outcomes that we value and beginning to build up a body of work, measures of those outcomes that we can talk about over time. I think the holy grail in all of this is to be able to develop longitudinal systems of data about outcomes and tracking changes in individuals lives over time. And at the state level, there are several states well along in this project. I wish we were further along in the federal government. And i think theres an opportunity for not only institutions, but companies to develop tracking systems that would help institutions measure the process of the folks who participate. So you have, as i think many in the room know, some of your own scars in outcomes measurement. As i read in the the New York Times, you and i, we didnt talk about this at the time but u read in the the New York Times when you took your job president obama had in mind a College Ratings system pretty clearly in h