Students' Social Origins and targeted Grade Inflation
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- A. Tampieri, 2011. "Students' Social Origins and Targeted Grade Inflation," Working Papers wp801, Dipartimento Scienze Economiche, Universita' di Bologna.
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soft grading; social background; signalling;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EDU-2013-12-15 (Education)
- NEP-URE-2013-12-15 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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