Grades, course evaluations, and academic incentives

Eastern Economic Journal

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 151-163

  Love, David A ^a   Kotchen, Matthew J ^b  

^a WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Course evaluations; Grade inflation; Teaching and research

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949803042     PISSN: 00945056     EISSN: 19394632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/eej.2009.6     Document Type: Article

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