We here at Teaching With Data are no strangers to our own student debt but, as Professor Dynarski wrote yesterday in her article for The U...
We here at Teaching With Data are no strangers to our own student debt but, as Professor Dynarski wrote yesterday in her article for The Upshot in the New York Times, a more thorough understanding of the issue has eluded even analysts and policy makers.
Dynarski credits this analysis, published by the Brookings Insitute, with making "the picture...significantly sharper." She goes on to explain how the new data reflects a much different reality from what many had presumed was the case before the release of this, more comprehensive, dataset.
On September 10th, researchers from the Treasury and Stanford University released their analysis of a new database created from "the merger of administrative records on student loan burdens to earnings information from de-identified tax records." The data includes loan balances from 1970-2014, labor-market out comes from 1999-2013, samples many types of higher education institutions, and looks at 4 million borrowers through 46 million annual observation including loan transactions and earning records.
Dynarski credits this analysis, published by the Brookings Insitute, with making "the picture...significantly sharper." She goes on to explain how the new data reflects a much different reality from what many had presumed was the case before the release of this, more comprehensive, dataset.
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