Jewell, R. Todd; McPherson, Michael A.; Tieslau, Margie A. - In: Applied Economics 45 (2013) 9, pp. 1185-1200
This study attempts to isolate the potential sources of grade inflation and to measure their relative importance. We incorporate existing models of grade inflation into a model of grade inflation at the department level. Our data comprise 1683 separate courses taught in 28 different academic...