The Evidence on Credit Constraints in Post-Secondary Schooling

Pedro Carneiro and James Heckman

No 9055, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper examines the family income -- college enrollment relationship and the evidence on credit constraints in post-secondary schooling. We distinguish short-run liquidity constraints from the long-term factors that promote cognitive and noncognitive ability. Long-run factors crystallized in ability are the major determinants of the family income -- schooling relationship, although there is some evidence that up to 8% of the U.S. population is credit constrained in a short-run sense. Evidence that IV estimates of the returns to schooling exceed OLS estimates is sometimes claimed to support the existence of substantial credit constraints. This argument is critically examined.

JEL-codes: D33 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002-07
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Published as Carneiro, P. and J. J. Heckman. "The Evidence On Credit Constraints In Post-Secondary Schooling," Economic Journal, 2002, v112(482,Oct), 705-734.

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