The Impact of Undergraduate Debt on the Graduate School Enrollment of STEM Baccalaureates

Autor/inn/en	Malcom, Lindsey E.; Dowd, Alicia C.
Titel	The Impact of Undergraduate Debt on the Graduate School Enrollment of STEM Baccalaureates
Quelle	In: Review of Higher Education, 35 (2012) 2, S.265-305 (41 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0162-5748
DOI	10.1353/rhe.2012.0007
Schlagwörter	Undergraduate Students; Human Capital; Debt (Financial); College Graduates; STEM Education; Finance Reform; Economic Impact; Enrollment Rate; Graduate Study; Graduate Surveys; Student Loan Programs; Financial Problems; Loan Repayment; Paying for College; National Surveys; Quasiexperimental Design; Cohort Analysis; Individual Characteristics; Institutional Characteristics; Case Records; Data Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Humankapital; Hochschulabsolvent; Hochschulabsolventin; STEM; Financial reform; Finanzreform; Ökonomische Determinanten; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studienfinanzierung; Kohortenanalyse; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Case reports; Fallsammlung; Auswertung
Abstract	While student loans provide college opportunity for many, undergraduate student debt resulting from typical and heavy borrowing hinders future investments in human capital. Propensity score matching analysis of the NSF's 2003 National Survey of Recent College Graduates demonstrates that debt negatively affects the graduate school enrollment of bachelor's degree holders in STEM fields, where debt is measured by a student's cumulative undergraduate debt relative to the mean debt of his or her baccalaureate graduating cohort. The findings support recent changes in financial aid policy that seek to reduce undergraduate borrowing by increasing means-tested grant aid. (Contains 3 tables and 3 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10