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Does student work really affect educational outcomes? : a review of the literature

Neyt, Brecht; Omey, Eddy; Verhaest, Dieter; Baert, Stijn - 2017

We review the theories put forward, methodological approaches used, and empirical conclusions found in the multidisciplinary literature on the relationship between student employment and educational outcomes. A systematic comparison of the empirical work yields new insights that go beyond the...

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Education level and mating success : undercover on Tinder

Neyt, Brecht; Vandebulcke, Sarah; Baert, Stijn - 2018

In this study, we examine the impact of an individual's education level on her/his mating success by means of a field experiment on the mobile dating app Tinder, using a sample of 3,600 profile evaluations. In line with previous studies from the field of evolutionary psychology, our results...

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Does multitasking affect students' academic performance? : evidence from a longitudinal study

Amez, Simon; Baert, Stijn; Heydencamp, Emily; Wuyts, Joey - 2021

students. However, this may come at a cost since the existing literature emphasises the negative association between …. Specifically, for three consecutive years, students at two Belgian universities, in more than ten different study programmes, were … surveyed on their multitasking preferences and academic performance. Then, these results were merged with the students' exam …

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Smartphone use and academic performance : correlation or causal relationship?

Baert, Stijn; Vujić, Sunčica; Amez, Simon; Claeskens, … - 2018

use, and other drivers of academic success with the exam scores of first-year students at two Belgian universities. The …

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Student employment and academic performance : an empirical exploration of the primary orientation theory

Baert, Stijn; Marx, Ive; Neyt, Brecht; Van Belle, Eva; … - In: Applied economics letters 25 (2018) 8, pp. 547-552

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Smartphone use and academic performance : first evidence from longitudinal data

Amez, Simon; Vujić, Sunčica; De Marez, Lieven; Baert, … - 2019

- longitudinal data on students' smartphone use and educational performance. For three consecutive years we surveyed all students … of academic achievement. These survey data were merged with the exam scores of these students. We analysed the resulting …

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Student work, educational achievement, and later employment : a dynamic approach

Baert, Stijn; Neyt, Brecht; Omey, Eddy; Verhaest, Dieter - 2017

This study examines the direct and indirect impact (via educational achievement) of student work during secondary education on later employment outcomes. To this end, we jointly model student work and later schooling and employment outcomes as a chain of discrete choices. To tackle their...

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The early labour market effects of generally and vocationally oriented higher education : is there a trade-off?

Verhaest, Dieter; Baert, Stijn - 2015

This study investigates whether the choice for a vocationally versus a generally oriented higher education program entails a trade-off between higher employment chances and better matches at the start of the career (when opting for a vocational orientation) and a lower risk of bad match...

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Modeling the effects of grade retention in high school

Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart; Picchio, Matteo - 2015

A dynamic discrete choice model is set up to estimate the effects of grade retention in high school, both in the short- (end-of-year evaluation) and long-run (drop-out and delay). In contrast to regression discontinuity designs, this approach captures treatment heterogeneity and controls for...

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The impact of internship experience during secondary education on schooling and labour market outcomes

Neyt, Brecht; Verhaest, Dieter; Baert, Stijn - 2019

The literature on workplace learning in secondary education has mainly focussed on vocational education programmes. In this study, we examine the impact of internship experience in secondary education on a student's schooling and early labour market outcomes, by analysing unique, longitudinal...

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