favoring girls, and that the misalignment of grades and test scores can be linked to gender differences in non …We extend the analysis of early-emerging gender differences in academic achievement to include both (objective) test … scores and (subjective) teacher assessments. Using data from the 1998-99 ECLS-K cohort, we show that the grades awarded by …

The paper examines the impact of class size on postgraduate grades using administrative data from one of the largest … (RDD). We find that class size does impact grades adversely overall; and the policy aimed at reducing class size impacts … grades favourably. Our findings are robust to alternative specifications as well as being supported by the validity tests we …