The effect of an anonymous grading reform for male and female university students

Joakim Jansson and Björn Tyrefors

Economics Letters, 2025, vol. 248, issue C

Abstract: This paper leverages a university-wide anonymous grading reform and presents evidence that female university students benefit from anonymous grading. Female grades improve by around 0.035 standard deviations relative to males. The effect is driven by smaller classes and male-dominated departments.

Keywords: Anonymous grading; Gender differences; Grading bias; University (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I23 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2025.112241

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