It is well known that higher education financing involves uncertainty and risk with respect to
students' future economic fortunes, and an unwillingness of banks to provide loans because …

This review surveys the literature on student lending, emphasizing empirical studies of
default, credit outcomes, and earnings. Student loans exist to alleviate credit constraints and …

This paper examines the rise in student loan default and delinquency. It draws on a unique
set of administrative data on federal student borrowing matched to earnings records from de …

In 1857 all of the Arts students at the University of Sydney could fit into a single photograph.
Now there are more than one million university students in Australia. After World War II …

The expansion of higher education throughout the OECD—and beyond—is both necessary
and desirable. But it is costly, and faces competing imperatives for public spending. Higher …

Despite increasing financial pressures on higher education systems throughout the world,
many governments remain resolutely opposed to the introduction of tuition fees, and some …

Higher education has undergone considerable expansion in recent decades in a number of
OECD countries. Expansion has been especially dramatic in the UK where aggregate …

Takes a fresh and illuminating approach to a subject whose importance for sustaining
modern industrial development and improvements in economic welfare over the long run is …

“I am 17 years of age. From 1991-4 I fought for the rebels in Liberia. I experienced plenty
wicked things. Carrying heavy weapons, burying dead friends who died in action and worst …

In November 1987, the Secretary of State for Education, Kenneth Baker (now Lord Baker of
Dorking) published a White Paper (UK Department for Education and Science 1987) …