A paper I badly need to read, and to read today: Talia Ba...

A paper I badly need to read, and to read today: Talia Bar and Asaf Zussman: Partisan Grading: "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...

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