Emanuele Fedeli

Why do girls receive better grades in school? The role of students’ competencies, personality traits, school-related attitudes, and behaviour

This study investigates the gender gap in teacher-assigned grades in German and mathematics among 7th-grade students in Germany. Using rich data from the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS, N = 1,972 cases), we examine the extent to which observed differences in grades betwee...