The Evidence on Credit Constraints in Post-Secondary Schooling

No 518, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

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.

Keywords: human capital; return to education; credit constraints (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D33 H43 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 41 pages
Date: 2002-06
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Published - published in: Economic Journal, 2002, 112 (482), 705-734

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