Using administrative data from a large 4-year public university, we show that male students are 18.6 percent more … likely than female students to receive favorable grade changes. These gender differences cannot be explained by observable … characteristics of the students, instructors, and the classes. Surveys of students and instructors reveal that regrade requests are …

bias. In this paper, we develop an empirical test that attempts to circumvent this problem. We assume that students who are …

Using administrative data from a large 4-year public university, we show that male students are 18.6 percent more … likely than female students to receive favorable grade changes initiated by instructors. These gender differences cannot be … explained by observable characteristics of the students, instructors, and the classes. To understand the mechanisms underlying …

Using administrative data from a large 4-year public university, we show that male students are 18.6 percent more … likely than female students to receive favorable grade changes initiated by instructors. These gender differences cannot be … explained by observable characteristics of the students, instructors, and the classes. To understand the mechanisms underlying …

resources by attracting wealthier students who, upon admission, make binding commitments to attend and to forgo shopping for … during the regular admission process to attract more diverse students. Using a sample of private national universities and …. We find that schools that face more competition for students are more likely to adopt ED. Overall heterogeneity of the …

additional resources by attracting wealthier students who, upon admission, make binding commitments to attend and to forego … practice are used by schools during the regular admission process to attract more diverse students. We document the admission … on student racial and geographic diversity. We find that schools that face more competition for students are more likely …

abroad program to identify the effect of international experience: students who are ready to participate in the Erasmus … program are chosen as a control group for students who have returned from studies abroad. Individuals make decisions in a … Trust Game and in a Triple Dictator Game. Results show that while students do not differentiate between partners from …