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The more recent Fed study combined credit reports with data on college attendance from the National Student Clearinghouse, discovering that the greatest disparity in homeownership rates is more tied to education than student debt. People without college degrees are more likely to own a home in their early 20s while their counterparts are hitting the books, but they lose that advantage around age 27. College graduates pull further away from those without degrees in their mid-30s, when their homeownership rates are 14 percent higher than people with only a high school diploma.