Does Student Loan Debt Deter Higher Education Participation? New Evidence from England

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 671, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 20-48

  Callender, Claire ^a   Mason, Geoff ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

debt aversion; higher education; loan aversion; student debt; student funding

Indexed keywords

EID: 85018783227     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: 15523349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716217696041     Document Type: Article

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