Ask and You Shall Receive? Gender Differences in Regrades in College

IF 5.6 1区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

American Economic Journal-Economic Policy Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI:10.1257/pol.20210053

Cher Hsuehhsiang Li, Basit Zafar

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Abstract

Using administrative data from a large public university, we show that male students are 18.6 percent more likely than female students to receive favorable grade changes made by instructors. Surveys of students and instructors reveal that regrade requests are prevalent and that male students are more likely to ask for regrades on the intensive margin. We corroborate the gender differences in regrade requests in an incentivized controlled experiment: we find that males have a higher willingness to pay to ask for regrades. Almost a third of the gender difference is due to gender differences in beliefs and the Big Five traits. (JEL D82, D91, I23, J16)

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祈求就会得到?大学成绩的性别差异

利用一所大型公立大学的行政数据，我们表明，男学生比女学生更有可能获得导师对成绩的有利改变。对学生和教师的调查显示，要求降级的现象很普遍，而男生更有可能要求降级。我们在一个激励对照实验中证实了降级请求的性别差异:我们发现男性有更高的支付降级请求的意愿。几乎三分之一的性别差异是由于信仰和五大特征的性别差异。(jel d82, d91, i23, j16)

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American Economic Journal-Economic Policy ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

8.20

自引率

1.90%

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期刊介绍： The American Economic Review (AER) is a general-interest economics journal. The journal publishes 12 issues containing articles on a broad range of topics. Established in 1911, the AER is among the nation's oldest and most respected scholarly journals in economics. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy publishes papers covering a range of topics, the common theme being the role of economic policy in economic outcomes. Subject areas include public economics; urban and regional economics; public policy aspects of health, education, welfare and political institutions; law and economics; economic regulation; and environmental and natural resource economics.