https://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/how-much-student-debt-is-too-much/?_r=0
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/25/upshot/a-quiet-revolution-in-helping-lift-the-burden-of-student-debt.html
Questions for discussion:
- What motivations & constraints apply to students considering schools & loan options, & to private lenders?
- What opportunity costs do students face when deciding how to pay for college? Should students avoid loans by skipping college or working their way through college? What are the opportunity costs of those two options?
- How would students respond to government limits on student loan interest rates? How would private banks respond? Why do you think these rate caps have not been implemented?
- What are the opportunity costs of the new income-based repayment program? What are the benefits? Why do you think this was implemented?
- Which of your responses to questions 1-4 were based on positive statements, and which were based on normative statements?