ability students. Such grade inflation is shown to reduce the aggregate wage of the lower class workers because employers use … social origin as a signal for productivity if grades are less than fully informative. Moreover, the high-ability students … students from the lower classes …

When grades lose their informative value because the percentage of students receiving the best grade rises without any …

analyse grade inflation in a setting where students differ in social background, a firm decides its hiring strategy and the … 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, …

who discriminate. Caste detection does not always involve signalling to a solitary receiver. Caste signalling situations … for both signalling of truth and passing off by signallers. If potential victims of caste-based discrimination wish to …

ability students. Such grade inflation is shown to reduce the aggregate wage of the lower class workers because employers use … social origin as a signal for productivity if grades are less than fully informative. Moreover, the high-ability students … students from the lower classes. …

.g. Crawford, 2014), which shows that, amongst students with the same grades on entry to university, those from worse …

When grades lose their informative value because the percentage of students receiving the best grade rises without any …