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Student Debt Thesis Research

Title
Author
Publication Year
Publisher
Item Type
Url
The American Dream, RIP?

2013

Economist

magazineArticle

www.economist.com
Student Loan Affordability

2013

Consumer Financial Protection Beaureau

report

files.consumerfinance.gov
Student Lending’s Failing Grade

DeRitis, Cristian

2011

Moody's

report

image.exct.net
Ripping Off Young America: The College-Loan Scandal

Taibbi, Matt

Rolling Stone

magazineArticle

www.rollingstone.com
Private Student Loans

2012

Consumer Financial Protection Beaureau

report

files.consumerfinance.gov
Grading Student Loans

2012

Federal Reserve Bank of New York

blogPost

libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org
The Difficulty in Data: A Look at How Used Car Lots Can Help to Explain Challenges Facing Obama’s College Ratings System

Ortagus, Justin

Higher Education in Review

blogPost

www.higheredinreview.org
The Student Debt Crisis

Johnson, Anne; Van Ostern, Tobin; White, Abraham

2012

Center for American Progress

report

www.americanprogress.org
Buying the Best: Cost Escalation in Elite Higher Education

Clotfelter, Charles

1996

book

eric.ed.gov
Almost half the jobs Americans thought were safe will soon be done by robots

Frey, Carl; Osbourne, Michael

2013

Quartz

webpage

qz.com
A Review of Measures Used in U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Colleges”

Gater, Denise

2002

The Lombardi Program on Measuring University Performance

report

mup.asu.edu
University Tuition, Consumer  Choice and College Affordability Strategies for Addressing a Higher Education Affordability Challenge

McPherson, Peter; Schulenburger, David

2008

NASULGC

report

www.aplu.org
Professionals and the 'Knowledge Economy': Rethinking the Theory of Postindustrial Society

Brint, Steven

2001

Current Sociology

journalArticle

www.higher-ed2000.ucr.edu
Forever in Your Debt Who Has Student Loan Debt, and Who’s Worried?

Ratcliffe, Caroline; McKernan, Signe-Mary

2013

The Urban Institute

report

www.urban.org
Student-Loan Debt in the District—Reasons behind the Recent Increase

Gascon, Charles; Noeth, Bryan

2013

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

report

www.stlouisfed.org
Colleges & Universities 2000 Databases

webpage

www.higher-ed2000.ucr.edu
Student Debt, the College Experience, and Transitions to Adulthood

Brint, Steven; Rotondi, Mathew

conferencePaper

www.higher-ed2000.ucr.edu
Debt Education: Bad for the Young, Bad for America

Williams, Jeffrey

Dissent

magazineArticle

www.dissentmagazine.org
The Scariest Student Loan Figure is $14,500

webpage

higheredwatch.newamerica.net
Archive of Josh Freedman Forbes Articles

webpage

www.forbes.com
The Supersizing of American Colleges

Mayyasi, Alex

webpage

priceonomics.com
Is Starting College and Not Finishing Really That Bad?

Greenstone, Michael; Looney, Adam

webpage

www.hamiltonproject.org
College Measures.org

webpage

collegemeasures.org
Is College Worth It?

Mayyasi, Alex

Pricenomics

webpage

priceonomics.com
MAKING COLLEGE WORTH IT: A REVIEW OF RESEARCH ON THE RETURNS TO HIGHER EDUCATION

Oreopoulos, Philip

journalArticle

www.nber.org
The University in the Marketplace: Some Insights and Some Puzzles

Rothschild; White

book

www.nber.org
ESTIMATING THE PAYOFF TO ATTENDING A MORE SELECTIVE COLLEGE: AN APPLICATION OF SELECTION ON OBSERVABLES AND UNOBSERVABLES

Dale, Stacey

Quarterly Economics Journal

journalArticle

cdn.theatlantic.com
Higher Education Bubble

Wikipedia

encyclopediaArticle

en.wikipedia.org
Paying the Piper: Productivity, Incentives, and Financing in US Higher Education

McPherson, Michael; Winston, Gordon

book

books.google.com
25 Ways to Reduce the Cost of College

The Center for College Affordability and Productivity

report

centerforcollegeaffordability.org
Introduction: a Different Kind of College Ranking

magazineArticle

www.washingtonmonthly.com
College Rankings: History, Criticism and Reform

Meyers, Luke; Robe, Johnathan

Center for College Affordability and Productivity

report

www.centerforcollegeaffordability.org
Playing With Numbers: How U.S. News mismeasures higher education and what we can do about it

magazineArticle

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2000/0009.thompson.html

Your Annual Reminder to Ignore the U.S. News & World Report College Rankings

Tierney, John

magazineArticle

www.theatlantic.com
The Student Debt Cliff As I See It

Despain, Hans

newspaperArticle

www.telegram.com
Student Loans, Bankruptcy, and the Fresh Start Policy: Must Debtors Be Impoverished to Discharge Educational Loans?

Salvin, Robert

journalArticle

heinonline.org
Student Loans: The New Debt Peonage

Jaffe, David

newspaperArticle

unfspinnaker.com
Bankruptcy & Discharging Student Loan Debt

document

www.debt.org
NY Fed Student Loan Debt

webpage

www.newyorkfed.org
digest of education statistics

digest of education statistics

webpage

nces.ed.gov
5 Reasons the Student Loan Crisis is Nothing Like the Mortgage Crisis

Prosser, Mark

blogPost

www.forbes.com
IrrationalExuberanceTuitionPrices

Clinton, Myra

thesis

America's Class System Across The Life Cycle

Bruenig, Matt

2014

Demos

blogPost

www.demos.org
CFPB Sues For-Profit College Chain ITT For Predatory Lending

2014

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

blogPost

www.consumerfinance.gov
College, the Great Unleveler

Mettler, Susan

2014

New York Times

newspaperArticle

opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com
Poorer families are bearing the brunt of college price hikes, data show

Marcus, Jon

2014

webpage

hechingerreport.org
College Grads Are Taking High School Grads’ Jobs and Delivering Better Results

Green, Sarah

2014

Harvard Business Review

blogPost

blogs.hbr.org
For Recent Grads, Good Jobs Really Are Hard to Find

Wessel, David

2014

Wall Street Journal: Washington Wire

blogPost

blogs.wsj.com
Why Workers Are Losing the War Against Machines

Brynjolfsson, Erik; McAfee, Andrew

2011

The Atlantic

magazineArticle

www.theatlantic.com
Student Loans: Overview and Issues

Edmiston, Kelly; Brooks, Lara; Shepelwich, Steven

2012

THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK of KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT

report

www.cgsnet.org
Infection surveillance on a shoe-string budget

Westwood, J C; Legacé, S; Mitchell, M A

1976

Dimensions in health service

journalArticle

The Whole Truth About Student Debt in 17 Charts

Phillips, Matt

2013

The Atlantic

blogPost

www.theatlantic.com
Declining Support for Education  Threatens Economic Growth

Justice, Kim

2011

Washington State Budget & Policy Center

report

budgetandpolicy.org
The Causes and Consequences of Increasing Student Debt

2013

US Congress Joint Economic Committee

report

www.jec.senate.gov
Young Student Loan Borrowers Retreat from Housing and Auto Markets

Brown, Meta; Caldwell, Sydnee

2013

Federal Reserve Bank of New York: Liberty Street Economics

blogPost

libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org
Student debt may hurt housing recovery by hampering first-time buyers

ElBoghdady, Dina

2014

The Washington Post

newspaperArticle

www.washingtonpost.com
Prepared Remarks by Rohit Chopra Before the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Chopra, Rohit

2013

presentation

www.consumerfinance.gov
At What Cost? How Student Debt Reduces Lifetime Wealth

Hiltonsmith, Robert

2013

Demos

report

The Economics of Student Loan  Borrowing and Repayment

Li, Wenli

2013

Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank

report

www.philadelphiafed.org
Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery

United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

webpage

http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/SupplementaryConventionAbolitionOfSlavery.aspx

Collection Charges

FinAid.org

webpage

www.finaid.org
Salary Survey: Average Starting Salary for Class of 2013 Grads Increases 2.4 Percent

2013

National Association of Colleges and Employers

report

http://naceweb.org/s09042013/salary-survey-average-starting-class-2013.aspx

The Boomerang Generation

Parker, Kim

2012

Pew Research Center

report

www.pewsocialtrends.org
Repayment Plans

Federal Student Aid: An Office of The Department of Education

webpage

studentaid.ed.gov
Understanding Default

Federal Student Aid: An Office of The Department of Education

webpage

studentaid.ed.gov
Grads Skirt Student Loans

Stech, Katy

2012

Wall Street Journal

newspaperArticle

online.wsj.com
Student Debt And The Class of 2012

Reed, Matthew

2013

The Institute for College Access & Success

report

projectonstudentdebt.org
Occupational employment projections to 2022

2013

Bureau of Labor Statistics

report

www.bls.gov
The Future of Employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation?

Frey, Carl; Osbourne, Michael

2013

Oxford University

thesis

www.futuretech.ox.ac.uk
Graduate School Attendance Is up, but Wage Premium Steady

Mitchell, Josh

2014

Wall Street Journal

newspaperArticle

blogs.wsj.com
Education Pays 2013 The Benefits of Higher Education  for Individuals and Society

2013

College Board

report

http://trends.collegeboard.org/sites/default/files/education-pays-2013-full-report.pdf

Subsidies, Hierarchy and Peers: The Awkward Economics of Higher Education

Winston, Gordon

Journal of Economic Perspectives

journalArticle

www.jstor.org
Trends in Student Aid 2013

2013

CollegeBoard

report

trends.collegeboard.org
The Great Cost Shift: How Higher Education Cuts Undermine The Future Middle Class

Quinterno, John

2012

Demos

report

The costs of higher education: how much do colleges and universities spend per student and how much should they spend?

Bowen, Howard Rothmann

1980

Jossey-Bass Publishers

book

About HEPI

Commonfund Institute

webpage

www.commonfund.org
Consumer Price Index - CPI

Investopedia

webpage

www.investopedia.com
Financial Trends in Higher Education: The United States

Geiger, Roger; Heller, Donald

2011

Peking University Education Review

journalArticle

www.ed.psu.edu
The Analytics of the Pricing of Higher Education and Other Services in Which the Customers Are Inputs

Rothschild, Michael; White, Lawrence

1995

Journal of Political Economy

journalArticle

www.jstor.org
The Economics of American Universities: management, operations, and fiscal environment

1990

State University of New York Press

book

Studies of supply and demand in higher education

Clotfelter, Charles T.; Rothschild, Michael

1993

University of Chicago Press

book

Life Delayed:  The Impact of Student  Debt on the Daily Lives of  Young Americans

2013

American Student Assistance

report

http://www.asa.org/pdfs/corporate/life-delayed.pdf

The Rise and Fall of Indentured Servitude in the Americas: An Economic Analysis

Galenson, David

1984

The Journal of Economic History

journalArticle

www.colorado.edu
http://wmpeople.wm.edu/asset/index/dhfeld/explainingincreasesinhighereducationcosts

Archibald, Robert; Feldman, David

2006

journalArticle

wmpeople.wm.edu
Trends in College Pricing 2013

CollegeBoard

report

trends.collegeboard.org
We Are Creating Walmarts of Higher Education

Pratt, Timothy

2013

The Atlantic

magazineArticle

www.theatlantic.com
The indentured generation: bankruptcy and student loan debt

Austin, Daniel

2012

Santa Clara Law Review

journalArticle

iris.lib.neu.edu
Federal Student Aid: Annual Report 2013

2013

US Department of Education

report

www2.ed.gov
Household Debt and Credit: Student Debt

Lee, Donghoon

2013

Federal Reserve Bank of New York

report

www.newyorkfed.org
Five Constructive Ways to Change American Higher Education

Vedder, Richard

2013

presentation

centerforcollegeaffordability.org
Introducing Bennett  Hypothesis 2.0

Gillen, Andrew

2012

Center for College Affordability and Productivity

report

files.eric.ed.gov
Economic inequality and higher education: access, persistence, and success

Dickert-Conlin, Stacy; Rubenstein, Ross H.

2007

Russell Sage Foundation

book

Academic capitalism and the new economy: markets, state, and higher education

Slaughter, Sheila; Rhoades, Gary

2004

Johns Hopkins University Press

book

Academic capitalism: politics, policies, and the entrepreneurial university

Slaughter, Sheila; Leslie, Larry L.

1997

Johns Hopkins University Press

book

How the university works: higher education and the low-wage nation

Bousquet, Marc

2008

New York University Press

book

Universities in the marketplace: the commercialization of higher education

Bok, Derek Curtis

2003

Princeton University Press

book

Crippling debt defers graduates’ dreams

Waterhouse, Gail

2013

The Boston Globe

newspaperArticle

www.bostonglobe.com
The Demand for Unobservable and Other Nonpositional Goods

Frank, Robert

1985

American Economic Review

journalArticle

www.jstor.org
Social limits to growth

Hirsch, Fred

1976

Harvard University Press

book

Equilibrium in Competitive Insurance Markets: An Essay on the Economics of Imperfect Information

Rothschild, Michael; Stiglitz, Joseph

1976

The Quarterly Journal of Economics

journalArticle

www.jstor.org
The Causes and Consequences of The Dependence of Quality on Price

Stiglitz, Joseph

1987

Journal of Economic Literature

journalArticle

wolfweb.unr.edu
The Market for "Lemons": Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism

Akerlof, George

1970

The Quarterly Journal of Economics

journalArticle

www.iei.liu.se
The Discharge of Student Loans in Bankruptcy: A Debtor's Guide to Obtaining Relief

Canterbury, Edward

2006

Ohio Northern University Law Review

journalArticle

THE STUDENT LOAN DEBT CRISIS: A LESSON IN UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES

Roots, Roger

2000

Southwest University Law Review

journalArticle

Student Debt and The Spirit of Indenture

Williams, Jeffrey J.

2008

Dissent

journalArticle

muse.jhu.edu
Job Market Signaling

Spence, Michael

1973

The Quarterly Journal of Economics

journalArticle

www.jstor.org
The student loan scam: the most oppressive debt in U.S. history, and how we can fight back

Collinge, Alan

2009

Beacon Press

book

For-profit higher education: developing a world-class workforce

Sperling, John G.; Tucker, Robert W.

1997

Transaction Publishers

book

The failure of laissez faire capitalism and economic dissolution of the West: towards a new economics for a full world

Roberts, Paul Craig

2013

Clarity Press, Inc

book

Higher education and corporate realities: class, culture, and the decline of graduate careers

Brown, Phillip; Scase, Richard

1994

UCL Press

book

What's happening to public higher education?

Ehrenberg, Ronald G.

2006

Praeger Publishers

book

College: what it was, is, and should be

Delbanco, Andrew

2013

book

In pursuit of prestige: strategy and competition in U.S. higher education

Brewer, Dominic J.; Gates, Susan M.; Goldman, Charles A.

2002

Transaction Publishers

book

Shop class as soulcraft: an inquiry into the value of work

Crawford, Matthew B.

2009

Penguin Press

book

Outpatient phenothiazine use and bone marrow depression. A report from the drug epidemiology unit and the Boston collaborative drug surveillance program

Swett, C, Jr

1975

Archives of general psychiatry

journalArticle

The Credential society: an historical sociology of education and stratification

Collins, Randall

1979

Academic Press

book

Education and jobs: the great training robbery

Berg, Ivar E.; Gorelick, Sherry

2003

Percheron Press

book

Economic challenges in higher education

Clotfelter, Charles T.

1991

University of Chicago Press

book

College (un)bound: the future of higher education and what it means for students

Selingo, Jeffrey J.

2013

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

book

The Pedagogy of Debt

Williams, Jeffrey

2006

College Literature

journalArticle

muse.jhu.edu
The Output of the Education Sector

Jorgenson, Dale

1992

University of Chicago Press

bookSection

THE ORDER OF THINGS: What college rankings really tell us.

Gladwell, Malcolm

The New Yorker

magazineArticle

www.newyorker.com
The Economics of Cost, Price and Quality In U. S. Higher Education

McPherson, Michael; Winston, Gordon

1991

Williams College

thesis

sites.williams.edu
Washington, a World Apart

Mellnik, Ted; Morello, Carol

2013

Washington Post

webpage

www.washingtonpost.com