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This paper examines systematic inequalities in the match between students and the university degree they apply to, and … measure of student-to-degree match employing minimal assumptions. We find that students who are the first in the family to … contrast, only the highest achieving female students relatively undermatch. These gaps are larger at the application stage. We …
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This report investigates a decades-long scheme by the student loan industry to rob borrowers of their right to debt relief on many types of private student loans. Despite industry-perpetuated misconceptions, only a specific subset of private student loans face heightened scrutiny in bankruptcy....
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Many borrowers with federal student loans also carry balances on loans owed to private companies. Students take out … historically targeted low-income and non-white students, including hose attending for-profit colleges and trade schools, which … that seek to profit off students who could not afford to repay loans in the first place through legislation that protects …
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A new, puzzling argument has swept the policy sphere, putting students at risk: that the current student loan payment …
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. We exploit unique administrative data from Colombia on the universe of students, institutions, and programs to control …
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To be truly effective, any policy of student debt discharge and cancellation must also provide clarity on the tax treatment of that cancellation. Standard tax law treats many forms of cancelled debt as a form of taxable income, just like wages and salaries. If that tax treatment applies to...
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We conducted a rapid analysis of President Biden’s executive order to cancel student debt. The analysis uses survey data from the National Center for Education Statistics Beginning Postsecondary Student (04/12) survey and Baccalaureate and Beyond (2016/2017) survey and the Survey of Consumer...
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Over the summer, President Biden announced a historic student debt relief plan that would cancel up to $20,000 in student debt for federal borrowers who make under $125,000 per year individually or under $250,000 per household. Since then, President Biden’s political opponents have filed...
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schools, hundreds of thousands of students have been displaced by school closures, in many cases leaving low-income students …
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“income share agreements” (“ISAs”) to Purdue students through the school’s “Back-A-Boiler™ ISA” program …
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