Students' Social Origins and targeted Grade Inflation

Alessandro Tampieri

DEM Discussion Paper Series from Department of Economics at the University of Luxembourg

Abstract: Grade inflation or soft grading is acommon feature of the educational systems of many countries. In this paper I analyse grade inflation in a setting where students differ in social background, a firm decides its hiring strategy and the schools grading policy can be targeted according to student type. A targeted grade inflation may exacerbate the job opportunities of disad- vantaged students compared to advantaged students. This result emerges since the school has an incentive in inflating grades for a larger proportion of students coming from an advantaged social background,

Keywords: soft grading; social background; signalling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D82 I21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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Working Paper: Students' Social Origins and Targeted Grade Inflation (2011)
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