The Effects of Attendance on Academic Performance: Panel Data Evidence for Introductory Microeconomics

Luca Stanca ()

Journal of Economic Education, 2006, vol. 37, issue 3, pages 251-266

Abstract: The author presents new evidence on the effects of attendance on academic performance. He used a large panel data set for introductory microeconomics students to explicitly take into account the effect of unobservable factors correlated with attendance, such as ability, effort, and motivation. He found that neither proxy variables nor instrumental variables provide a solution to the omitted variable bias. Panel estimators indicate that attendance has a smaller but significant impact on performance. Lecture and classes have a similar effect on performance individually, although their impact cannot be identified separately. Overall, the results indicate that, after controlling for unobservable student characteristics, attendance has a statistically significant and quantitatively relevant effect on student learning.

Keywords: attendance; performance; teaching; undergraduate (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A22 I21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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Working Paper: The effects of attendance on academic performance: panel data evidence for Introductory Microeconomics (2004)
Working Paper: The Effects of Attendance on Academic Performance: Panel Data Evidence for Introductory Microeconomics (2004)
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