Federal Student Loan Defaults: What Happens After Borrowers Default and Why

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2018-08-13

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American Enterprise Institute

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Student loan default has attracted considerable attention from journalists and the research community over the past several years, as the Department of Education projects that more than a quarter of federal student loans to undergraduates will end up in default at some point. But less commonly discussed are the pathways that student borrowers follow after defaulting on a federal loan. In this report, the authors combine a comprehensive review of federal policies surrounding default with an analysis of post-default pathways using a newly constructed federal data set of student borrowers.

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education, higher--government policy, student loans, federal student financial aid

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