Looking at Student Loan Defaults through a Larger Window

Meta Brown, Andrew Haughwout, Donghoon Lee, Joelle Scally and Wilbert van der Klaauw

No 20150219, Liberty Street Economics from Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Abstract: Most of our previous discussion about high levels of student loan delinquency and default has used static measures of payment status. But it is also instructive to consider the experience of borrowers over the lifetime of their student loans rather than at a point in time. In this second post in our three-part series on student loans, we use the Consumer Credit Panel (CCP), which is itself based on Equifax credit data, to create cohort default rates (CDRs) that are analogous to those produced by the Department of Education but go beyond their three-year window. We find that default rates continue to grow after three years and that performance by cohort worsened in the years leading up to the Great Recession.

Keywords: cohort default rate; student loans; delinquency; defaults (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-02-19
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