Ask and You Shall Receive? Gender Differences in Regrades in College

Using administrative data from a large public university, we show that male students are 18.6 percent more likely than female to receive favorable grade changes made by instructors. Surveys of and instructors reveal regrade requests prevalent ask for regrades on the intensive margin. We corroborate gender differences in an incentivized controlled experiment: find males have higher willingness pay regrades. Almost third difference is due beliefs Big Five traits. (JEL D82, D91, I23, J16)