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The Organizational Ecology of College Affordability: Student Debt and Need-Based State Grant Aid for Public University Students

Author: 
Eaton, Charlie, Kulkarni, Sheisha, Birgeneau, Robert, Brady, Henry, Hout, Mike
Publish Date: 
August 2, 2019
Description: 
Eaton et. al show that low income students have struggled to repay debts across the status hierarchy of public universities but that state grant aid programs and institutional grant aid programs at higher status schools have reduced borrowing and repayment burdens.