American Economic Journal:
Applied Economics
ISSN 1945-7782 (Print) | ISSN 1945-7790 (Online)
Partisan Grading
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
vol. 4,
no. 1, January 2012
(pp. 30–48)
Abstract
We study grading outcomes associated with professors in an elite university in the United States who were identified—using voter registration records from the county where the university is located—as either Republicans or Democrats. The evidence suggests that student grades are linked to the political orientation of professors. Relative to their Democratic colleagues, Republican professors are associated with a less egalitarian distribution of grades and with lower grades awarded to black students relative to whites. (JEL D72, I23, J15)Citation
Bar, Talia, and Asaf Zussman. 2012. "Partisan Grading." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 4 (1): 30–48. DOI: 10.1257/app.4.1.30Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- D72 Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- I23 Higher Education and Research Institutions
- J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
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