# Professor Constantine Yannelis' research on student debt

1 October 8, 2016 The Economist ![The Economist logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_025662.jpg?itok=1_MW1PTy)>

Excerpt from [The Economist](http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21708241-hillary-clintons-college-funding-plan-better-politics-policy-more-present) -- "According to number-crunching by Adam Looney of the Treasury Department and [Constantine Yannelis](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/constantine-yannelis) of New York University, non-traditional students made up more than half of all new borrowers from the federal government between 2004 and 2014. They accounted for fully 70% of those who defaulted within two years of starting repayments in 2011."

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