In this paper, we apply economic behavior analysis to the issue of grades and student ratings of teaching, and develop econometric models (both OLS and 2SLS methods) to test the hypothesis that students rate their professors primarily based upon their midterm grades. Our findings reveal that...

Student evaluations of teaching represent an economic behavior between professors and students and have been viewed as a game. In this paper, I apply a static game to address their behaviors and determine a Nash Equilibrium. Moreover, a simultaneous framework is developed to investigate the...