Mounting student debt burdens is not keeping young people from buying houses, according to a new study that could allay some of the biggest economic concerns about the $1.3 trillion in student loans taken out by students.

In a paper published Tuesday by the Brookings Institution, economist Susan Dynarski concludes that the “striking gap in homeownership is not between college-educated people who did and did not borrow, but between those with and without a college education.”