Our critical innovation is to calculate repayment burdens for graduates with widely differing
earnings, and we find that these generally are relatively low because the SLF is
heavily subsidized. Even so, for graduates with very low income the burdens can be high.
Importantly we analyze and illustrate what the repayment streams would be if the SLF was
redesigned to have no interest rate subsidies and findthat the burdens increase to extremely
high levels for the lowest income graduates. The results are considered in the context of
the analysis of income contingent loan schemes for Thailand presented in Chapman and
Lounkaew (this issue).