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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Student loans"”.
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Financial Cultural Capital: Cultural Capital in the Context of Higher Education and Federal Student Loans
… knowledge and experience of undergraduate students who have borrostudent loans. It also explores students' feelings about their loans. I surveyed 100 undergraduate students who had contracted student loans to gather information about their knowledge of financial instruments and feelings …
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A Qualitative Analysis of Students' Experience Using Student Loans and Financial Literacy at a Community College
The research paper examines what students believe and understand about student loans and financial literacy at a local community college. Participants were interviewed using structured and semi-structured questions about student loans and financial literacy. Baxter Magolda's Theory of …
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Student Demographics and Perceptions of the Cost-Sharing Program for Financing Higher Education in Tanzania and Their Relationship to Perceived Likelihood of Student Loans Repayment
… established the cost-sharing program to increase students’ access to higher educational institutions and enrollment. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to explore the student perceptions of the cost sharing program for financing higher education in Tanzania and whether selected …
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Analysis of Texas College Students' Loan Borrowing Patterns
This study was conducted to examine Texas college students' loan borrowing patterns. Through the use of a questionnaire, a survey was conducted among individuals who financed all or part of their college education through the use of the State Sponsored Student Loan Program. The results of the study …
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Examining the mechanisms of the student loan recovery for sustainable financing of higher education in Zambia.
For undergraduate students in public universities in Zambia, the main source of funding for higher education is the student loan programme. The student loan scheme is sustained through government and student loans recoveries. Even though Higher Education Loans and Scholarships Board (HELSB) has …
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Examining the mechanisms of the student loan recovery for sustainable financing of higher education in Zambia.
For undergraduate students in public universities in Zambia, the main source of funding for higher education is the student loan programme. The student loan scheme is sustained through government and student loans recoveries. Even though Higher Education Loans and Scholarships Board (HELSB) has …
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Essays on Macroeconomics and Labor Economics
… to evaluate the long-run effects of federal student loans. I estimate the model to match features of micro-level U.S. household survey data in the 2000s. I find that federal student loans reduce fertility rates but increase college attendance rates and income and have no discernible effects …
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Essays In Macroeconomics
… equilibrium effects of government-supplied student loans in the educational markets of developing countries. Our main finding suggests that subsidized student loans can lead to a widening gap in the quality of education offered by top-10 versus top-50 educational institutions. Given the …
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Life and Debt for ETSU Graduate Students.
… this thesis investigates how graduate students at East Tennessee State University feel about their finances. Although all adults, by necessity, have everyday money concerns, this study explores the unique experiences that post-baccalaureate students have with debt, how they talk about …
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Student loan debt influence on graduate degree attainment
<p>Student loan debt is an important topic up for discussion and has become a huge issue affecting multiple dimensions of today’s society. Undergraduate students are accruing more debt than ever to pay for college degrees, and recent trends in higher education report a raise in cost of tuition. …
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Going Under to Get Ahead: Paying for College in an Age of Uncertainty
Student loans have become a cornerstone of democratized access to higher education. This dissertation contributes a novel approach to conceptualizing the student loan issue: students as consumers—both of college and of the student loans themselves. Through a mixed-method in-depth study of a …
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Help-seeking intentions and perceived stigma : a survey among university students in Iceland
… status, childrearing, employment with school, student loans, living situations, perceived stigma, depressive symptoms and anxiety symptoms affect help-seeking of university students in Iceland. To measure help-seeking intentions the General Help Seeking Questionnaire was used (Wilson, Deane, …
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The Effect of Social Stratification on College Students' Academic Performance & Progress
… progress and how those variables affect a student’s decision to drop out of college. The researcher selected participants for this study from the database at a 4-year private HBCU located in the northern part of Jacksonville Florida. Many students enrolled in college encounter outstanding …
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The Relationship Between Financial Incentives and Perceptions of Student Choice at Private Michigan Universities
… a college or university degree gives millions of students “sticker shock” each year, and paying off student debt has only grown more difficult over time (Liberto, 2012). The College Board, a nonprofit group that runs the SAT exam, indicates that over the past decade, the average annual tuition for …
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College access for first-generation highlander college students of northern Thailand
This study focuses on first-generation college students of highland ethnic minorities, formally known as “hill tribes,” who have languages and cultures very different from mainstream Thais. Little is known about college attendance among these students, and the Thai government collects no …
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Impact of Financial Literacy and Financial Capability on Students' Self-Efficacy
<p>Low-income, first-generation college students experience unique obstacles in their pursuits of a college degree. One of the biggest stressors that exist within this population is financial stress which has led to money being the number one reason students do not persist to graduation. Despite …
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Student success and geography: An analysis of contributing factors that determine college academic achievement and persistence of Black males
… drawn from the 2012/14 Beginning Postsecondary Students (BPS) Longitudinal Study (BPS: 12/14) conducted by the U.S. Department of Education National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) to explore third-year academic achievement and persistence for Black males. This study identified two …
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Designing feminist pensions policies: a feminist institutional analysis of the interrelationships between structure, agency and gendered pension outcomes in the UK
… analysis of how changes such as wage stagnation, student loans and property ownership affect women’s financial futures. In the second stage, I investigate how women exercise agency within the structural environment, identifying enabling and constraining factors and arising policy implications. …
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Essays on the Family Economics and Gender
… In Chapter 3, I examine the relationship between student borrowing behavior for post-secondary education and a set of individual-specific characteristics, including financial literacy, and cognitive and non-cognitive skills. I find that financial literacy is negatively associated with the …
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