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

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  • Cher Hsuehhsiang Li
  • Basit Zafar

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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.

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  • Cher Hsuehhsiang Li & Basit Zafar, 2023. "Ask and You Shall Receive? Gender Differences in Regrades in College," American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Association, vol. 15(2), pages 359-394, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:aea:aejpol:v:15:y:2023:i:2:p:359-94
    DOI: 10.1257/pol.20210053
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    JEL classification:

    • D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
    • D91 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making
    • I23 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Higher Education; Research Institutions
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination

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