# Professor Constantine Yannelis' joint research on student debt repayment is featured

1 Faculty News February 20, 2018 ![Triangle Business Journal logo 192 x 144](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/trianglebusinessjournal192x144.jpg?itok=Dk2cXCSE)>

Excerpt from the [Triangle Business Journal](https://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2018/02/20/share-of-students-strapped-with-50k-in-student.html) -- "The share of students strapped with more than $50,000 in student debt has exploded since 2000, according to new research from Adam Looney of The Brookings Institution and [Constantine Yannelis](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/constantine-yannelis) of NYU Stern. While there were 5 percent of student borrowers who had more than $50,000 in student debt back in 2000, that share grew to 17 percent of student borrowers by 2014."

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