Does lecture attendance affect academic performance? Panel data evidence for introductory macroeconomics

Vincenzo Andrietti

International Review of Economics Education, 2014, vol. 15, issue C, 1-16

Abstract: I analyze data from students enrolled in an introductory macroeconomics course taught at a public university in Italy to assess the impact of lecture attendance on academic performance. Using proxy variables regressions to capture the effect of unobservable student traits possibly correlated with attendance, I still find a positive and significant effect of attendance. However, when using panel data fixed effect estimators to eliminate time-invariant individual-specific unobservables, the effect disappears. The robustness of my results to supplementary data from a major public university in Spain suggests that the positive effect of attendance commonly reported in the literature may still incorporate an impact of unobservable student traits.

Keywords: Attendance; Performance; University; Panel data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A22 I21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.iree.2013.10.010

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