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Darolia, Rajeev; Ritter, Dubravka – Education Finance and Policy, 2020
Bankruptcy reform in 2005 restricted debtors' ability to discharge private student loan debt. The reform was motivated by the perceived incentive of some borrowers to file for bankruptcy under Chapter 7 even if they had, or expected to have, sufficient income to service their debt. Using a nationally representative sample of millions of anonymized…
Descriptors: Student Loan Programs, Loan Default, Debt (Financial), Loan Repayment
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Darolia, Rajeev; Harper, Casandra – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2018
A prominent concern is that college students are harming their long-term economic prospects by making student loan decisions without full information about the implications of their choices. We designed an experiment to examine students' responses to a debt letter, an increasingly popular strategy to provide easily accessible information about…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Financial Aid, Debt (Financial), Decision Making
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Darolia, Rajeev – Education Finance and Policy, 2015
Student loan debt and defaults have been steadily rising, igniting public worry about the associated public and private risks. This has led to controversial regulatory attempts to curb defaults by holding colleges, particularly those in the for-profit sector, increasingly accountable for the student loan repayment behavior of their students. Such…
Descriptors: Debt (Financial), Loan Default, Student Loan Programs, Loan Repayment
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Darolia, Rajeev – Journal of Education Finance, 2014
Little is known about private student loan discrimination, in contrast to the relatively developed research on discrimination in other credit markets such as mortgages and credit cards. The private student lending market can play a key role in responding to changes in the policy or economic environment, and many students and their families turn to…
Descriptors: Student Loan Programs, Student Financial Aid, Credit (Finance), Labor Market