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Future Potential versus Past Performance: MPOWER Financing’s Innovation in Student Loan Underwriting
Herbst-Murphy, Susan
(2016-09-20)
The Payment Cards Center hosted a February 2016 workshop featuring MPOWER Financing, a start-up public benefit corporation created to be a source of student loans for high-potential scholars who either do not qualify for federal aid or who face a gap between federal aid maximums and the full cost of their educations. MPOWER has taken a unique approach to loan underwriting that is based on future potential rather than past credit experience and has developed a scoring model that helps predict loan repayment for young adults who have yet to establish a credit history. This paper summarizes ...
Consumer Finance Institute discussion papers
, Paper 16-2
Working Paper
Default Risk and Private Student Loans: Implications for Higher Education Policies
Ionescu, Felicia; Simpson, Nicole B.
(2014-08-26)
The private market for student loans has become an important source of college financing in the United States. Unlike government student loans, the terms on student loans in the private market are based on credit status. We quantify the importance of the private market for student loans and of credit status for college investment in a general equilibrium heterogeneous life-cycle economy. We find that students with good credit status invest in more college education (compared to those with bad credit status) and that this effect is more pronounced for low-income students. Furthermore, results ...
Finance and Economics Discussion Series
, Paper 2014-66
Discussion Paper
Student Debt Loan in Philadelphia
Tranfaglia, Anna
(2020-05-01)
As of December 1, 2018, approximately 310,320 Philadelphians collectively owed $11.6 billion in student loan debt. The share of adults with student loan debt is greater in Philadelphia (25.3 percent) than in Pennsylvania (21.2 percent) and in the United States as a whole (17.3 percent). This report provides an in-depth analysis of the geographic distribution of this debt in Philadelphia. It reveals that individuals in different zip codes have drastically different experiences in how much they owe, the degree to which they struggle with repayment, and the extent to which they become ...
Community Affairs Discussion Paper
Discussion Paper
Trends in Debt Concentration in the United States By Income
Lee, Donghoon; Mazewski, Matthew; Zafar, Basit; Scally, Joelle
(2015-11-05)
Household debt in the United States expanded before the Great Recession, contracted afterward, and has been recovering since 2013. But how has the distribution of debt across different income groups evolved over time? Who has been driving the recovery of household debt over the past two years? To date, there has been little work on how borrowing patterns for high- and low-income individuals have changed over time, although one notable exception is Amromin and McGranahan. Here, using the New York Fed Consumer Credit Panel (CCP), a quarterly panel data set based on Equifax credit reports, we ...
Liberty Street Economics
, Paper 20151105
Journal Article
Student Loans: A Primer
Hylands, Thomas
(2014-01)
On average, higher education is a great investment: The average person with a four-year degree earns substantially more than the average high school graduate, and the cost of that degree is well below the financial benefits that are derived. However, borrowing to pay for education has risen dramatically in recent years, with outstanding student debt recently passing $1 trillion, which is almost four times the debt incurred in 2004. Today, an increasingly large number of borrowers are unable to make their student loan payments,4 which raises concerns about what this means for individuals and ...
Cascade
, Volume 1
Discussion Paper
Just Released: Press Briefing on Student Loan Borrowing and Repayment Trends, 2015
Van der Klaauw, Wilbert; Haughwout, Andrew F.; Scally, Joelle; Lee, Donghoon
(2015-04-16)
This morning, Jamie McAndrews, the Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, spoke to the press about the economic recovery, and his speech was followed by a special briefing by New York Fed economists on student loans. Here, we provide a short summary of the student loan briefing.
Liberty Street Economics
, Paper 20150416
Report
Assessing the Relative Progressivity of the Biden Administration’s Federal Student Loan Forgiveness Proposal
Scally, Joelle; Goss, Jacob; Mangrum, Daniel
(2023-01-01)
We quantify the total stock of balances eligible for the Biden Administration’s student loan forgiveness policy announced and examine which groups benefit most. Up to $442 billion in loans are eligible. Those benefiting most are younger, have lower credit scores, and live in lower- and middle-income neighborhoods. We also find that Black and Hispanic borrowers disproportionately benefit from the proposal. We then compare the distribution of beneficiaries for the announced policy to several alternative hypothetical forgiveness proposals and three existing tax credits. The additional ...
Staff Reports
, Paper 1046
Discussion Paper
Who is More Likely to Default on Student Loans?
Chakrabarti, Rajashri; Jiang, Michelle; Gorton, Nicole; Van der Klaauw, Wilbert
(2017-11-20)
This post seeks to understand how educational characteristics (school type and selectivity, graduation status, major) and family background relate to the incidence of student loan default. Student indebtedness has grown substantially, increasing by 170 percent between 2006 and 2016. In addition, the fraction of students who default on those loans has grown considerably. Of students who left college in 2010 and 2011, 28 percent defaulted on their student loans within five years, compared with 19 percent of those who left school in 2005 and 2006. Since defaulting on student loans can have ...
Liberty Street Economics
, Paper 20171120
Discussion Paper
Are Student Loan Defaults Cyclical? It Depends
Chakrabarti, Rajashri; Jiang, Michelle; Gorton, Nicole; Van der Klaauw, Wilbert
(2017-11-22)
This post is the second in a two-part series on student loan default behavior. In the first post, we studied how educational characteristics (school type and selectivity, graduation, and major) and family background relate to the incidence of student loan default. In this post, we investigate whether default behavior has varied across cohorts of borrowers as the labor market evolved over time. Specifically, does the ability of student loan holders to repay their loans vary with the state of the labor market? Does the type of education these students received make any difference to this ...
Liberty Street Economics
, Paper 20171122
Discussion Paper
What Might Happen When Student Loan Forbearance Ends?
Chakrabarti, Rajashri; Van der Klaauw, Wilbert; Lu, Jessica
(2022-04-21)
Federal student loan relief was recently extended through August 31, 2022, marking the sixth extension during the pandemic. Such debt relief includes the suspension of student loan payments, a waiver of interest, and the stopping of collections activity on defaulted loans. The suspension of student loan payments was expected to help 41 million borrowers save an estimated $5 billion per month. This post is the first in a two-part series exploring the implications and distributional consequences of policies that aim to address the student debt burden. Here, we focus on the uneven consequences ...
Liberty Street Economics
, Paper 20220421a
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