Ask and You Shall Receive? Gender Differences in Regrades in College
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
vol. 15,
no. 2, May 2023
(pp. 359-94)
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.Citation
Li, Cher Hsuehhsiang, and Basit Zafar. 2023. "Ask and You Shall Receive? Gender Differences in Regrades in College." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 15 (2): 359-94. DOI: 10.1257/pol.20210053Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- D82 Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- D91 Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making
- I23 Higher Education; Research Institutions
- J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
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