Delisle, Jason D.Cooper, PrestonChristensen, Cody2019-10-252019-10-252018-08-13http://hdl.handle.net/10919/95090Student 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.application/pdfenCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationaleducation, higher--government policystudent loansfederal student financial aidReporthttp://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Federal-Student-Loan-Defaults.pdf