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Women get more education, but men get more education that has a positive ROI.

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Schrodinger's Feminist owns many Schrodinger's cats: a quantum crazy cat lady

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That suggests that with the same degree, they'd pay off loans at the same rate. I'd bet on that.

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I'd actually bet that women pay them off at a higher rate.

  1. Women are more risk averse than men.
  2. Women tend to marry upwards socioeconomically, so their households can better afford to pay off debts.

The caveat would be what we mean by "the same degree", because it's only actually the top 10% of a cohort that earns positive ROI, so we'd need to hold GPA and alma mater constant too.

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There is a name for marrying up socio-economically... Hypergamy!

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Good catch

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What's the gender ratio of any discipline whose name ends with "studies"

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I think you must mean "gender ratios", unless you're implying something unspeakable about the number of genders.

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I'd say "off to the gulag with me" but I don't think we do that anymore now that trump is president

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women's studies, I mean gender studies, I mean Gender(s) studies

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