Indebted and Drained: Student Loans and Rural America

Steven Deller and Jackson Parr

Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm, and Resource Issues, 2020, vol. 35, issue 3

Abstract: Increasing student debt and its impacts on labor markets, entrepreneurship, and homeownership may drag down rural economies. Using declared interest on federal tax returns, this analysis finds higher rates of student debt negatively affect a variety of community economic outcomes, particularly in rural communities.

Keywords: Community/Rural/Urban; Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.304669

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