REAL COSTS OF NOMINAL GRADE INFLATION? NEW EVIDENCE FROM STUDENT COURSE EVALUATIONS

  1. PHILIP BABCOCK†

Article first published online: 14 SEP 2010

DOI: 10.1111/j.1465-7295.2009.00245.x

Issue

Economic Inquiry

Economic Inquiry

Volume 48, Issue 4, pages 983–996, October 2010

Additional Information

How to Cite

BABCOCK, P. (2010), REAL COSTS OF NOMINAL GRADE INFLATION? NEW EVIDENCE FROM STUDENT COURSE EVALUATIONS. Economic Inquiry, 48: 983–996. doi: 10.1111/j.1465-7295.2009.00245.x

Author Information

  1. Babcock: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA. Phone 1-805-893-4823, Fax 1-805-893-8830, E-mail babcock@econ.ucsb.edu.

  1. †

    This work benefited from interactions with and comments from Kate Antonovics, Kelly Bedard, Roger Gordon, Peter Kuhn, Mindy Marks, Garey Ramey, Valerie Ramey, and Michelle White. The author thanks April Burcham and Jeremiah Schwab for facilitating access to the UCSD CAPE data.

  • †

    This work benefited from interactions with and comments from Kate Antonovics, Kelly Bedard, Roger Gordon, Peter Kuhn, Mindy Marks, Garey Ramey, Valerie Ramey, and Michelle White. The author thanks April Burcham and Jeremiah Schwab for facilitating access to the UCSD CAPE data.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 14 SEP 2010
  2. Article first published online: 14 SEP 2010
  3. Online Early publication August 27, 2009

SEARCH

SEARCH BY CITATION

ARTICLE TOOLS

View Full Article (HTML) Get PDF (1158K)

Cited in:

CrossRef

This article has been cited by:

  1. 1
    Ahmad A. Kardan, Hamid Sadeghi, A Decision Support System for Course Offering in Online Higher Education Institutes, International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, 2013, 6, 5, 928

    CrossRef

  2. 2
    Darren Grant, William B. Green, Grades as incentives, Empirical Economics, 2013, 44, 3, 1563

    CrossRef

  3. 3
    Ahmad A. Kardan, Hamid Sadeghi, Saeed Shiry Ghidary, Mohammad Reza Fani Sani, Prediction of student course selection in online higher education institutes using neural network, Computers & Education, 2013, 65, 1

    CrossRef

  4. 4
    Leong H. Liew, As Asia's quarry: implications for Australia, Australian Journal of International Affairs, 2012, 66, 5, 542

    CrossRef

  5. 5
    Steven Brint, Allison M. Cantwell, Preeta Saxena, Disciplinary Categories, Majors, and Undergraduate Academic Experiences: Rethinking Bok’s “Underachieving Colleges” Thesis, Research in Higher Education, 2012, 53, 1, 1

    CrossRef

  6. 6
    Trinidad Beleche, David Fairris, Mindy Marks, Do course evaluations truly reflect student learning? Evidence from an objectively graded post-test, Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31, 5, 709

    CrossRef

  7. 7
    Rebecca Summary, William L. Weber, Grade inflation or productivity growth? An analysis of changing grade distributions at a regional university, Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2012, 38, 1, 95

    CrossRef

  8. 8
    Helen Roberts, Deirdre N. McCloskey, What Economics Should We Teach Before College, If Any?, The Journal of Economic Education, 2012, 43, 3, 293

    CrossRef

  9. 9
    Peter Arcidiacono, Esteban M Aucejo, Ken Spenner, What happens after enrollment? An analysis of the time path of racial differences in GPA and major choice, IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2012, 1, 1, 5

    CrossRef

  10. You have free access to this content10
    Peter Arcidiacono, Esteban M. Aucejo, Hanming Fang, Kenneth I. Spenner, Does affirmative action lead to mismatch? A new test and evidence, Quantitative Economics, 2011, 2, 3
    Direct Link:
View Full Article (HTML) Get PDF (1158K)