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ERIC Number: EJ1299559
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021-Jun
Pages: 28
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0361-0365
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How Does Undergraduate Debt Affect Graduate School Application and Enrollment?
Chen, Rong; Bahr, Peter Riley
Research in Higher Education, v62 n4 p528-555 Jun 2021
This study estimates the short- and long-term effects of undergraduate educational debt on students' decisions to apply and to enroll in graduate school after completing requirements for a baccalaureate degree, using marginal mean weighting through stratification method (MMW-S) to analyze data from the National Center for Education Statistics Baccalaureate and Beyond 2008-2012 (B&B 08-12) survey. Although we find that historically and socioeconomically disadvantaged groups tend to accumulate higher levels of educational debt, our results indicate minimal effects of undergraduate debt on graduation school application and enrollment. We find no differences by race/ethnicity, family income, or status as a first-generation baccalaureate recipient in the effects of educational debt on graduate school application or enrollment.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Authoring Institution: N/A
Grant or Contract Numbers: DRL0941014