TY - JOUR
T1 - An analysis of Stafford loan repayment burdens
AU - Chapman, Bruce
AU - Lounkaew, Kiatanantha
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2015/4/1
Y1 - 2015/4/1
N2 - There is significant unease with the state of college loans in the US, of which Stafford loans are the most common. One of the most important issues relates to the "repayment burden" (RB), the proportion of a debtor's income per period required to repay loans. RBs are fundamental to assessments of student loan systems, and must impact on debtors' consumption experience and loan default probabilities. Surprisingly, there is little evidence of the size of RBs in with respect to Stafford loans and our major goal is to rectify this deficiency through the presentation of a large range of plausible calculations, for average graduates and young lawyers working in either the private or public sectors. Importantly, we are able to compare estimates of RBs at the mean of incomes with a much more useful approach using unconditional quantile estimates of incomes. The disaggregation illustrates how critical it is to explore RBs across the income distribution by age and sex, and between employment sectors for lawyers. It is shown that RBs are a potentially important problem for a significant minority of debtors, and could assume major difficulties for some.
AB - There is significant unease with the state of college loans in the US, of which Stafford loans are the most common. One of the most important issues relates to the "repayment burden" (RB), the proportion of a debtor's income per period required to repay loans. RBs are fundamental to assessments of student loan systems, and must impact on debtors' consumption experience and loan default probabilities. Surprisingly, there is little evidence of the size of RBs in with respect to Stafford loans and our major goal is to rectify this deficiency through the presentation of a large range of plausible calculations, for average graduates and young lawyers working in either the private or public sectors. Importantly, we are able to compare estimates of RBs at the mean of incomes with a much more useful approach using unconditional quantile estimates of incomes. The disaggregation illustrates how critical it is to explore RBs across the income distribution by age and sex, and between employment sectors for lawyers. It is shown that RBs are a potentially important problem for a significant minority of debtors, and could assume major difficulties for some.
KW - Higher education financing
KW - Repayment burdens
KW - Stafford loans
KW - Student loans
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U2 - 10.1016/j.econedurev.2014.11.003
DO - 10.1016/j.econedurev.2014.11.003
M3 - Article
SN - 0272-7757
VL - 45
SP - 89
EP - 102
JO - Economics of Education Review
JF - Economics of Education Review
ER -