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Student Loans and Early Post-Graduation Earnings: Evidence from Decomposition AnalysisSerguey BraguinskyCarnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences Atsushi OhyamaHokkaido University - Graduate School of Economics & Business Administration February 7, 2012 Abstract: Student loans increase educational opportunities for students from all backgrounds. They have also been criticized as imposing financial and psychological hardships. We employ the data from restricted-use National Surveys of Recent College Graduates to conduct an in-depth investigation of the relationship between student loans and post-graduation labor market outcomes. Graduates with loans have systematically lower earnings than graduates without loans. Decomposition estimations show that most of the earnings differential is due to factors related to the choice and performance in college and unobservables. Student borrowers could benefit from more information about net returns to higher quality education conditional on borrowing.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 43 Keywords: human capital, student loans, earnings differentials, decomposition methods JEL Classification: I22, J24, J31 working papers seriesDate posted: February 7, 2012Suggested CitationContact Information
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