Constrained After College: Student Loans and Early Career Occupational Choices

Jesse Rothstein, Cecilia Elena Rouse

NBER Working Paper No. 13117
Issued in May 2007

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We thank Jane Fortson, Alan Krueger, Jed Marsh, Robin Moscato, and Harvey Rosen for useful conversations and seminar participants at the CUNY Graduate School, Drexel University, Stanford University, the University of California at Davis, the University of Florida, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and the American Education Finance Association. We are also indebted to officials at Anon U for the data and to DeForest McDuff, Scott Mildrum and Farrah Parkes for expert research assistance. We thank the Princeton Center for Economic Policy Studies, Education Research Section, and Industrial Relations Section for financial support. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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