Framing effects, earnings expectations, and the design of student loan repayment schemes

KG Abraham, E Filiz-Ozbay, EY Ozbay… - Journal of Public …, 2020 - Elsevier
Income-driven student loan repayment (IDR) plans provide protection against unaffordable
loan payments and default by linking loan payments to borrower's earnings. Despite the …

Comparing high school students' attitudes towards borrowing for higher education in England and the United States: Who are the most loan averse?

A Boatman, C Callender… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Student borrowing is a major higher education public policy issue, with students in both
England and the United States increasingly relying on loans to finance postsecondary …

Improving college choice in centralized admissions: Experimental evidence on the importance of precise predictions

X Ye - Education Finance and Policy, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
This paper provides the first experimental evidence of how admission outcomes in
centralized systems depend on strategic college choice behaviors. Centralized college …

Student debt and behavioral bias: a trillion dollar problem

P Raj - arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.02081, 2023 - arxiv.org
This literature review elucidates the implications of behavioral biases, particularly those
stemming from overconfidence and framing, on the intertemporal choices made by students …

The burden of student loan debt: differences in socioeconomic background and attitudes towards higher education

K Furuta - British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Increased reliance on student loans to finance higher education (HE) raises concerns about
unequal access and repayment burdens. However, who borrows and what motivates …

Risk–return preferences, gender inequalities and the moderating role of a counselling intervention on choice of major: evidence from a field and survey experiment

L Fervers, M Jacob, J Beckmann, JG Piepenburg - Higher Education, 2024 - Springer
In this study, we examine gender inequalities in educational decision-making. Specifically,
we consider high school students selecting a higher education study programme and …

Student loan decision making: experience as an anchor

N Porto, SH Cho, M Gutter - Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2021 - Springer
The purpose of study is to examine the association between one's past borrowing
experience and borrowing decisions in a hypothetical survey scenario. A total of 1928 …

Understanding the complexities of experimental analysis in the context of higher education

BJ Evans - Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research …, 2021 - Springer
The most reliable method for identifying the causal effect of a treatment on an outcome is to
conduct an experiment in which the treatment is randomly assigned to a portion of the …

[PDF][PDF] Personalized advising for college math: Experimental evidence on the use of human expertise and machine learning to improve college choice

X Ye - 2021 - xiaoyangye.github.io
This paper studies how machine learning predictions can improve the effectiveness and
efficiency of college-choice advising. When applying to colleges, students often incorrectly …

Destination FAFSA: High School Student, Family, and School Factors That Matter for Planning for and Completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid

AE Bell - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Abstract According to the National College Attainment Network (NCAN, 2023), each year,
thousands of high school graduates leave billions of dollars in federal student aid unclaimed …