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[https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ero](https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ero)  \nLike Any Other Trap: The Circuitous Path of Student  \nLoan Repayment  \nFernando Furquim*  \nMinneapolis Community & Technical College  \nKC Deane*  \nBrian P. McCall  \nStephen L. DesJardins  \nUniversity of Michigan School of Education  \nThis paper studies the patterns of individuals’ student loan repayment for up to 12 years, tracking borrowers through the formative ages of the early 20s to the late 30s. Using social sequence and cluster analysis to understand these longitudinal repayment histories, we identify five archetypes of loan repayment that describe borrowers’experiences: persistent defaulters, perpetual payers, rapid full payers, late full payers, and consolidators. We find significant stratification by race/ethnicity, social class, and institutional sector into repayment clusters, with minoritized borrowers and those attending for-profit institutions more likely to experience adverse borrowing outcomes and to experience them for longer.  \nKeywords: student debt, student loan repayment, social sequence analysis, student loan default  \nPostsecondary education is more critical than ever for economic security and mobility as the employment prospects of individuals without a college degree continue to deteriorate (Ma et al., 2016). Employers’ expectations of postsecondary attainment continue to grow (Harris & Holley, 2016) . This“credentialism” has recently been framed as a key driver of student debt (e.g., Cottom, 2017; Morgan & Steinbaum, 2018) as it creates an imperative for investing in one’s education even though such investments carry some risk: Students bear a growing share of education costs (Desrochers & Hurlburt, 2016) and rely heavily on student loans to finance them (Akers & Chingos, 2016) . Even though college graduates outearn their peers with no higher-education credentials, millions of borrowers face significant chal  \nlenges repaying student loans (Looney & Yannelis, 2015) .  \nThe culmination of these trends is a student loan system in distress. Outstanding student loan balances exceed $1.7 trillion (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 2020) at a time of stagnant earnings, even for holders of college or graduate degrees—and earnings have declined even more sharply for those with no college education (Morgan & Steinbaum, 2018) . Thus, although the college earnings  \n*Fernando Furquim and KC Deane share first co-authorship of this paper.  \npremium seems to grow, the debt that many incur to finance their education leaves them in a financially precarious position. It is no surprise, then, that a student loan “repayment crisis” has emerged (Dynarski, 2014, p. 2): Upwards of 30% of borrowers default within 5 years (Mueller & Yannelis, 2017), and more than half of borrowers do not pay down any of their principal balance within 3 years (Kelchen & Li, 2017) . In fact, many borrowers—57% of those entering repayment in 2012—owe more after 2 years in repayment than they did initially, accruing interest faster than they pay down their loans (Looney & Yannelis, 2015) . Underlying these trends is a complex student loan repayment system that interacts with borrowers’ life course as they manage debt  \nwhile navigating careers and formative financial decisions.  \nThis paper analyzes student loan repayment as a longitudinal process. Prior research on student debt has generally centered on a select few outcomes of interest at discrete points in time (e.g., default within 3 years, outstanding balances 10 years post-enrollment) . Rather than focusing on a single loan outcome or time window, we construct continuous repayment histories for a nationally representative sample of borrowers from init","cbCaibEE9QgZWU4i","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibEE9QgZWU4i","pdf",2684640,"English","# Introduction\n# Research Approach and Data\n## Longitudinal repayment histories\n## Social sequence and cluster analysis\n# Repayment Archetypes and Findings","[{\"question\":\"What is the main focus of the paper on student loans?\",\"answer\":\"The paper studies patterns in individuals’ student loan repayment over as long as 12 years, viewing repayment as a longitudinal process tied to life-course transitions.\"},{\"question\":\"How are repayment patterns analyzed in the study?\",\"answer\":\"The study constructs continuous repayment histories for a nationally representative sample and applies social sequence and cluster analysis to identify distinct repayment trajectories.\"},{\"question\":\"What major repayment archetypes does the paper find?\",\"answer\":\"Five archetypes are identified: persistent defaulters, perpetual payers, rapid full payers, late full payers, and consolidators, each describing different repayment pathways.\"}]","Like Any Other Trap - The Circuitous Path of Student Loan Repayment | PDF",1792071256,48]