The Use of Student Fixed Effects in Explaining Grade Outcomes: Estimating Revealed Grit

Christopher Azevedo and John Crooker

Journal of Economic Insight, 2024, vol. 50, issue 1, 1-52

Abstract: We develop a method of estimating an empirical measure of student grit, which we call "revealed grit," that does not depend on self-reported data as with other measures in the literature. Fixed effects regression methods are used to model student letter grade in a college course as a function of the student's demonstrated cognitive performance, sociodemographic variables, academic rank, relative high school performance, subject matter of the college course, instructor, advisor, and an individual student effect, which we interpret as an empirical measure of grit. We also demonstrate that revealed grit can be predicted using secondary education data.

JEL-codes: A21 A22 I21 I23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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