Dynamic interactions and intersubjectivity: Challenges to causal modeling in studies of college student debt

Review of Educational Research

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 232-259

  Dowd, Alicia C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Borrowing; College; Cost sharing; Debt; Financial aid; Higher education; Interaction effects; Loans; Mixed methods; Risk; Student loans

Indexed keywords

EID: 45149131441     PISSN: 00346543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0034654308317252     Document Type: Review

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