“This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.”
More evidence student debt is making young people think twice about marriage
Source Date:
Sunday, June 4, 2017
We’ve all heard that rising student debt is changing the way Americans live their lives. A new study provides some insight into exactly how.
Female law school graduates with high debt are more likely to work in the private sector, postpone marriage and childbearing and marry men with lower earnings than their counterparts with lower levels of debt, according to a working paper distributed this week by the National Bureau of Economic Research. The authors of the paper, who work at the University of Pennsylvania and Ryerson University, didn’t observe the same patterns in a corresponding sample of male lawyers.