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Young, Black, and (Still) in the Red: Parental Wealth, Race, and Student Loan Debt.
Race and Social Problems ( IF 2.877 ) Pub Date : 2016-03-01
Fenaba R Addo 1 , Jason N Houle 2 , Daniel Simon 3
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Taking out student loans to assist with the costs of postsecondary schooling in the US has become the norm in recent decades. The debt burden young adults acquire during the higher education process, however, is increasingly stratified with black young adults holding greater debt burden than whites. Using data from the NLSY 1997 cohort, we examine racial differences in student loan debt acquisition and parental net wealth as a predictor contributing to this growing divide. We have four main results. First, confirming prior research, black young adults have substantially more debt than their white counterparts. Second, we find that this difference is partially explained by differences in wealth, family background, postsecondary educational differences, and family contributions to college. Third, young adults' net worth explain a portion of the black-white disparity in debt, suggesting that both differences in accumulation of debt and ability to repay debt in young adulthood explain racial disparities in debt. Fourth, the black-white disparity in debt is greatest at the highest levels of parents' net worth. Our findings show that while social and economic experiences can help explain racial disparities in debt, the situation is more precarious for black youth, who are not protected by their parents' wealth. This suggests that the increasing costs of higher education and corresponding rise in student loan debt are creating a new form of stratification for recent cohorts of young adults, and that student loan debt may be a new mechanism by which racial economic disparities are inherited across generations.

中文翻译:

红色的年轻,黑人和(仍):父母的财富,种族和学生贷款债务。

在最近几十年中,获取学生贷款以协助美国中等教育的费用已成为一种习惯。然而,年轻人在高等教育过程中所承担的债务负担越来越多,黑人年轻人的债务负担比白人高。使用来自NLSY 1997队列的数据,我们检查了学生贷款债务获取和父母的净财富中的种族差异,以此作为加剧这种差距的预测因素。我们有四个主要结果。首先,证实了先前的研究,黑人年轻人的债务比白人年轻人多得多。其次,我们发现这种差异部分地由财富,家庭背景,专上教育的差异以及家庭对大学的贡献的差异所解释。第三,年轻人 净资产解释了债务中黑白差异的一部分,这表明债务积累的差异和成年后还债能力的差异都解释了债务中的种族差异。第四,在父母净资产最高的水平上,债务的黑白差异最大。我们的研究结果表明,尽管社会和经济经验可以帮助解释债务中的种族差异,但这种情况对于不受父母财富保护的黑人青年来说更加不稳定。这表明,高等教育成本的增加和学生贷款债务的相应增加正在为最近的年轻人群创造一种新的分层形式,而学生贷款债务可能是一种新的机制,可以通过这种新机制来世代相传。这表明,债务积累的差异和成年后还债能力的差异都可以解释债务中的种族差异。第四,在父母净资产最高的水平上,债务的黑白差异最大。我们的研究结果表明,尽管社会和经济经验可以帮助解释债务中的种族差异,但这种情况对于不受父母财富保护的黑人青年来说更加不稳定。这表明,高等教育成本的增加和学生贷款债务的相应增加正在为最近的年轻人群创造一种新的分层形式,而学生贷款债务可能是一种新的机制,可以通过这种新机制来世代相传。这表明,成年后债务积累和还债能力的差异都可以解释债务中的种族差异。第四,在父母净资产最高的水平上,债务的黑白差异最大。我们的研究结果表明,尽管社会和经济经验可以帮助解释债务中的种族差异,但这种情况对于不受父母财富保护的黑人青年来说更加不稳定。这表明,高等教育成本的增加和学生贷款债务的相应增加正在为最近的年轻人群创造一种新的分层形式,而学生贷款债务可能是一种新的机制,可以通过这种新机制来世代相传。
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