Discussion Paper

A Trillion Dollar Question: What Predicts Student Loan Delinquency Risk?


Abstract: Over the past ten years, the real amount of student debt owed by American households more than doubled, from about $450 billion to more than $1.1 trillion. As a result of this increase, in 2010 student loan debt surpassed credit card debt as the largest class of non-housing consumer debt.

https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.1647

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Provider: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)

Part of Series: FEDS Notes

Publication Date: 2015-10-16

Number: 2015-10-16