Micro-Level Determinants of Lecture Attendance and Additional Study-Hours

Martin Ryan (), Liam Delaney and Colm Harmon
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Martin Ryan: University College Dublin

No 5144, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper uses novel measures of individual differences that produce new insights about student inputs into the (higher) education production function. The inputs examined are lecture attendance and additional study-hours. The data were collected through a web-survey that the authors designed. The analysis includes novel measures of individual differences including willingness to take risks, consideration of future consequences and non-cognitive ability traits. Besides age, gender and year of study, the main determinants of lecture attendance and additional study-hours are attitude to risk, future-orientation and conscientiousness. In addition, future-orientation, and in particular conscientiousness, determine lecture attendance to a greater extent than they determine additional study. Finally, we show that family income and financial transfers (from both parents and the state) do not determine any educational input. This study suggests that non-cognitive abilities may be more important than financial constraints in the determination of inputs related to educational production functions.

Keywords: future-orientation; non-cognitive ability; higher education; lecture attendance; attitude to risk; hours of study; education inputs; conscientiousness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D90 I21 J2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19 pages
Date: 2010-08
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Published - published as "The Role of Noncognitive Traits in Undergraduate Study Behaviours" in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 32, 181-195

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