student debt overview: postsecondary national policy institute (pnpi)
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Higher Education and Student Debt Overview: Higher education is crucial to improving the skill level of American workers, especially given rising income and employment gaps between high school and college graduates. With growing enrollment and rising tuition, student loans play an increasingly important role in financing higher education. Rapid growth in the prevalence of student borrowing, and aggregate student debt balances approaching $1 trillion, have attracted attention from policymakers, the media, and the public. We describe the historical and current situation of student debt and discuss its implications for borrowers and the economy.TRANSCRIPT
Postsecondary National Policy Institute (PNPI) 8/14/13
Meta Brown, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Student Debt Overview
The views presented here are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or the Federal Reserve System
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FRBNY’s 2013Q2 Household Debt and Credit Report was released at 11am today.
Student debt grew by $8 billion (0.8 ppt) to $994 billion.
This is a slower rate of growth than 2012Q4 – 2013Q1 (2.1 ppt), but similar to 2012Q1-2012Q2 (1.1 ppt). In general, Q1-Q2 is a slower growth period for student debt.
Overall consumer debt fell by $79 billion, or 0.7 ppt, to $11.15 trillion. (Peak $12.68 trillion)
Housing debt fell: Mortgage -$92 billion (1.1 ppt – transfer of servicing); HELOC -$12 billion (2.2 ppt)
Non-housing debt rose: SL; Credit card +$8 billion (1.2 ppt); Auto +$20 billion (2.5 ppt)
Breaking news
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Higher education is crucial to improving the skill level of American workers, especially given rising income and employment gaps between high school and college graduates.
With growing enrollment and rising tuition, student loans play an increasingly important role in financing higher education.
Rapid growth in the prevalence of student borrowing, and aggregate student debt balances approaching $1 trillion, have attracted attention from policymakers, the media, and the public.
We describe the historical and current situation of student debt and discuss its implications for borrowers and the economy.
Higher Education and Student Debt
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The findings discussed here are based on the FRBNY Consumer Credit Panel (CCP) – a representative sample of consumer credit data that the New York Fed acquired from Equifax.
The CCP contains borrower-level information on student loan balances and payment status, along with other types of household debt– but no federal vs. private student loan distinction.
Details are available in Donghoon Lee’s press briefing, available via http://www.newyorkfed.org/regional/householdcredit.html
Lee, Wilbert van der Klaauw, Joelle Scally, Andrew Haughwout, and David Yun regularly update information on student loan borrowers and related household debt on our public website. http://www.newyorkfed.org/householdcredit
Data: FRBNY Consumer Credit Panel (CCP) / Equifax
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Why borrow for education?
College graduates have lower unemployment rates, fare better during recessions, and enjoy wages roughly double those of high school graduates.
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Part 1: Growth of Student Loans
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Total student loan balances by age groupincreasing across all age groups
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Source: FRBNY Consumer Credit Panel / Equifax
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Non-mortgage balances
Student debt is the only kind of household debt that continued to rise through the Great Recession. Now the second largest balance after mortgage debt.
Source: FRBNY Consumer Credit Panel / Equifax
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Number of borrowers and average balance per person
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Distribution of student loan balance, 2012:Q4
40% of borrowers have balances less than $10,0003.7% of borrowers have balances greater than $100,000
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Student borrowing increasingly prevalent
Source: FRBNY Consumer Credit Panel / Equifax
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Student debt prevalence and mean among 25 year olds
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Part 2: Student Debt Delinquency
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6.7 million borrowers, or 17%, are 90+ days delinquent.30-49 year olds have higher delinquency rates.
Source: FRBNY Consumer Credit Panel / Equifax
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Borrower repayment status, 2012:Q4
About 44% of borrowers are not yet in active repayment due to deferments and forbearances.
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Source: FRBNY Consumer Credit Panel / Equifax * Repayment status is defined using the quarterly change in balance and the current payment status.
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Delinquency rates higher among borrowers in repayment
Source: FRBNY Consumer Credit Panel / Equifax
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Part 3: Subsequent Economic Activity
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Young student borrowers retreat from housing marketwith coauthor Sydnee Caldwell
Source: FRBNY Consumer Credit Panel / Equifax
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Young student borrowers retreat from auto market
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Student borrowing increasingly prevalent
Source: FRBNY Consumer Credit Panel / Equifax
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Student borrowers deleverage, despite rapid SL growth
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Weakened labor markets Lowers graduates’ expectations regarding future income Graduates reign in consumption
Decreased access to credit Underwriting standards tightened in the recession & recovery DTI calculations include larger student loan balances Increased SL delinquency lowers apparent creditworthiness
Consider trends in credit scores for those with and without student debt:
Why the decline in housing & auto market participation?
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Declining relative credit scores of student borrowers
Source: FRBNY Consumer Credit Panel / Equifax
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Higher education is an important investment among young workers, but it is accompanied with a growing student debt burden.
Aggregate student loan balances almost tripled between 2004 and 2012 due to an increasing number of borrowers and higher balances per borrower.
About 17% of borrowers are delinquent on student debt. Adjusting for repayment causes the delinquency rate to rise to over 30%.
Conclusion
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Young student borrowers appear to have retreated from both housing and auto markets between 2008 and 2012.
Hence, despite rapidly growing student debt balances, they lowered their overall debt from 2008 to 2012.
Lowered earning expectations, tighter underwriting standards, higher DTIs, and decreased creditworthiness may limit the contribution of these skilled young workers to housing and auto market recoveries.
While highly skilled young workers have traditionally provided a vital influx of new, affluent consumers to U.S. housing and auto markets, unprecedented student debt may dampen their influence in today’s marketplace.
Conclusion
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APPENDIX
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On our website, we provide: Updates of our Quarterly Report on Household Debt &
Credit ▫ Balances for Mortgages, Credit Card, Auto, & Student Debt▫ Delinquency rates
Spreadsheets:▫ All data featured in the Quarterly Report on Household Debt &
Credit (1999-2013:q1, quarterly)▫ Student loan
– # borrowers, delinquency rates, average balance
– By state (2004-2012, annual) – By age group (2012 only)
Appendix: www.newyorkfed.org/householdcredit