Abstract At the private university we analyze, the gap between white and black grade point
averages falls by half between the students' freshmen and senior year. This outcome could …

This study analyzes the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on grade inflation in higher
education. Data were collected from five universities in Turkey, including grades of 152,352 …

Grade inflation and high grade levels have been subjects of concern and public debate in
recent decades. In the mid-1990s, Cornell University's Faculty Senate had a number of …

We consider school competition in a Bayesian persuasion framework. Schools compete to
place graduates by investing in education quality and by choosing grading policies. In …

We document that college completion rates have increased since the 1990s, after declining
in the 1970s and 1980s. We find that most of the increase in graduation rates can be …

Background When students enter college, many have determined the field in which they
wish to pursue a degree (Astin & Astin, 1993; Stinebrickner & Stinebrickner, 2011). Hence …

An agent who is imperfectly informed about his binary quality can voluntarily participate in a
test that generates a public signal. I study the design of the test that allows for optimal …

This study provides new evidence of the causal effect of the tenure system on grading
leniency, teaching effectiveness, and student effort by taking advantage of a natural …

When students receive better grades without any corresponding increase in ability, this is
called grade inflation. Conventional wisdom says that such grade inflation is unavoidable …

This study examined the change in the rate of graduates with high honors (> 3.50) in teacher
training programs and the factors affecting grade inflation and graduation GPAs over a 20 …