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

Cher Hsuehhsiang Li and Basit Zafar

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2023, vol. 15, issue 2, 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.

JEL-codes: D82 D91 I23 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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