More than just choosing more lucrative majors, men seem to make profit maximizing education decisions, whereas women follow their interests. 

It wouldn’t be surprising if that disparity in financial emphasis translated into debt management. 

Undisciplined

That's interesting, but not surprising.  Not only are they a significantly greater share of entering college students, they also tend to choose majors and career fields that don't pay as much.

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women hold twice as much student loan debt as men

Scoresby

That's interesting, but not surprising.  Not only are they a significantly greater share of entering college students, they also tend to choose majors and career fields that don't pay as much.
 