Constrained after college: Student loans and early-career occupational choices.

Autor/inn/en	Rothstein, Jesse; Rouse, Cecilia Elena
Titel	Constrained after college: Student loans and early-career occupational choices. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Eingeschränkt nach dem College: Studentenkredite und frühe Karrierewahl.
Quelle	In: Journal of public economics, 95 (2011) 1/2, S. 149-163 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0047-2727; 1879-2316
DOI	10.1016/j.jpubeco.2010.09.015
Schlagwörter	Einkommenshöhe; Finanzierung; Kredit; Verschuldung; Karriereplanung; Studium; Wissenschaftliche Weiterbildung; Hochschulabsolvent; Student; USA
Abstract	"In the early 2000s, a highly selective university introduced a 'no-loans' policy under which the loan component of financial aid awards was replaced with grants. We use this natural experiment to identify the causal effect of student debt on employment outcomes. In the standard life-cycle model, young people make optimal educational investment decisions if they are able to finance these investments by borrowing against future earnings; the presence of debt has only income effects on investment decisions. We find that debt causes graduates to choose substantially higher-salary jobs and reduces the probability that students choose low-paid 'public interest' jobs. We also find some evidence that debt affects students' academic decisions during college. Our estimates suggest that recent college graduates are not life-cycle agents. Two potential explanations are that young workers are credit constrained or that they are averse to holding debt. We find suggestive evidence that debt reduces students' donations to the institution in the years after they graduate and increases the likelihood that a graduate will default on a pledge made during her senior year; we argue this result is more likely consistent with credit constraints than with debt aversion." Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 1999 bis 2006. (author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2011/3