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Student loan debt affects a borrower's credit score.

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CONTESTED PARTIAL
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3 sources for · 1 against

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Is it true that student loan debt affects a borrower's credit score?

Partly. The retrieved items only partially address the claim: one general credit-debt source says late or missed payments and high credit utilization lower credit scores, and a student-loan default report says default hinders access to credit, but neither states that student loan debt itself affects a borrower's credit score. A separate study finds student debt levels have only limited power to predict future student loan credit events, so the evidence is mixed and indirect.

Verdict: CONTESTED PARTIAL · 3 sources for, 1 against · Last checked

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Evidence for · 3
Credit card debt
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Credit card debt. (n.d.). en.wikipedia.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_card_debt

Evidence against · 1
A Trillion-Dollar Question: What Predicts Student Loan Delinquencies?
2015
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Mezza, A. & Sommer, K. (2015). A Trillion-Dollar Question: What Predicts Student Loan Delinquencies?. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2015.098

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Debt Moratoria: Evidence from Student Loan Forbearance
2023
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Dinerstein, M., Yannelis, C., & Chen, C. (2023). Debt Moratoria: Evidence from Student Loan Forbearance. nber.org. https://www.nber.org/papers/w31247

Student Loan Default Patterns: What Different Paths through Default Can Tell Us about Equitably Supporting Borrowers. Research Report
2022
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Jason, C. (2022). Student Loan Default Patterns: What Different Paths through Default Can Tell Us about Equitably Supporting Borrowers. Research Report. eric.ed.gov. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED625856

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