What Matters in Student Loan Default: A Review of the Research Literature
By Jacob P. K. Gross, Osman Çekiç, D. Hossler, Nicholas W. Hillman. ˜The œJournal of student financial aid, 2010
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19 Federal higher education policy has shifted over the past few decades from grants to loans as the primary means for providing access to postsecondary education for lowand moderate-income families. With this shift, policy makers have begun tracking student loan default rates as a key indicator of the efficacy of student loan programs. This effort requires a closer examination of how to define default and what default signifies: What is an acceptable rate of default? What factors contribute to default? Should default rates be used as indicators of institutional quality or loan program efficacy. These questions lead to further investigation of factors influencing default, such as whether default is a function of the characteristics of students or of the institutions they attend, and whether the types of loans borrowed influence the probabilities of default. To help answer these and related questions, this study reviewed the literature of research on student loan default conducted between 1978 and 2007, and identified 41 of the higher quality studies, the findings of which are summarized here.
Subfields: Demography, Education
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- College on Credit: A Multilevel Analysis of Student Loan Default (2013, background): “A wide range of survey designs, data sources, and units of analysis are found in this literature, as summarized by Gross et al. (2009).”