Forgive and Forget: The Elusive Electoral Returns to Student Debt Cancellation

• In Event: Inequality, Class, and Perceived Injustice

Brief Overview

We estimate the causal effect of student debt cancellation on turnout and vote choice in the 2024 U.S. presidential election in order to reconcile competing explanations for the elusive electoral returns to public policies.

Authors

• Patrick Liu, Columbia University

• Molly Offer-Westort, University of Chicago