Using administrative data from a large 4-year public university, we show that male students are 18.6 percent more … likely than female students to receive favorable grade changes. These gender differences cannot be explained by observable … characteristics of the students, instructors, and the classes. Surveys of students and instructors reveal that regrade requests are …

learning from experience that also allows for heterogeneity in both private information and updating. Our model vastly …

The recent nonexperimental literature on social learning focuses on showing that observational learning exists, that is … “stubborn.” -- Belief ; Bayesian updating ; social learning ; conformity ; herding ; peers …

college attendance by household income or parents' education persist but decline by 20-30 percent. Notably, the effect of …