Lecture Attendance, Study Time, and Academic Performance: A Panel Data Study

Autor/inn/en	Andrietti, Vincenzo; Velasco, Carlos
Titel	Lecture Attendance, Study Time, and Academic Performance: A Panel Data Study
Quelle	In: Journal of Economic Education, 46 (2015) 3, S.239-259 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0485
DOI	10.1080/00220485.2015.1040182
Schlagwörter	Economics Education; Attendance; Academic Achievement; Study Habits; Time on Task; Public Colleges; Regression (Statistics); Correlation; Undergraduate Students; Foreign Countries; Robustness (Statistics); Questionnaires; Statistical Analysis; Spain (Madrid) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Wirtschaftskunde; Anwesenheit; Schulleistung; Study behavior; Study behaviour; Studienverhalten; Zeitaufwand; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Korrelation; Ausland; Widerstandsfähigkeit; Fragebogen; Statistische Analyse
Abstract	The authors analyze matched administrative survey data on economics students enrolled in two econometrics courses offered in consecutive terms at a major public university in Spain to assess the impact of lecture attendance and study time on academic performance. Using proxy variables in a cross-sectional regression setting, they find a positive and significant effect of attendance and study time, with a substantially higher return on each additional hour of attendance. However, when panel data first-difference estimators are used to eliminate time-invariant individual-specific unobservables possibly correlated with regressors of interest, the attendance effect disappears, while study time substantially increases its economic impact. These results suggest that study time may be much more important than attendance as a causal determinant of academic performance. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01