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100 1 _aBlack, Sandra E.
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245 1 0 _aPLUS or Minus? The Effect of Graduate School Loans on Access, Attainment, and Prices /
_cSandra E. Black, Lesley J. Turner, Jeffrey T. Denning.
260 _aCambridge, Mass.
_bNational Bureau of Economic Research
_c2023.
300 _a1 online resource:
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490 1 _aNBER working paper series
_vno. w31291
500 _aMay 2023.
520 3 _aIn 2006, the federal government effectively uncapped student borrowing for graduate programs with the introduction of the Graduate PLUS loan program. Access to additional federal loans increased graduate students' borrowing and shifted the composition of their loans from private to federal debt. However, the increase in borrowing limits did not improve access to existing programs overall or for underrepresented groups. Nor did access to additional loan aid result in significant increase in constrained students' persistence or degree receipt. We document that among programs in which a larger share of graduate students had exhausted their annual federal loan eligibility before the policy change--and thus were more exposed to the expansion in access to credit--federal borrowing and prices increased.
530 _aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
538 _aSystem requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files.
538 _aMode of access: World Wide Web.
588 0 _aPrint version record
690 7 _aGeneral
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650 7 _aGeneral
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690 7 _aEducational Finance • Financial Aid
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650 7 _aEducational Finance • Financial Aid
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700 1 _aTurner, Lesley J.
700 1 _aDenning, Jeffrey T.
710 2 _aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830 0 _aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research)
_vno. w31291.
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w31291
856 _yAcceso en lĂ­nea al DOI
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w31291
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