The author presents new evidence on the effects of attendance on academic performance. He used a large panel data set … 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 …

removing a university wide policy of mandatory attendance for a single class. His results indicate that while an attendance … implementing a module-specific attendance policy. Our results suggest the link between absenteeism and exam performance is strong … question the uniformity of the relationship between attendance and exam performance. …

approach (Okoye, 2011), exposing students to economics as early as possible in their undergraduate careers (Fournier and Sass …

This paper presents new evidence on the effects of attendance on academic performance. We exploit a large panel data … with attendance, such as ability, effort and motivation. We find that neither proxy variables nor instrumental variables … provide a viable solution to the omitted variable bias. Panel estimators indicate that attendance has a positive and …

In an experiment in non-formal schools in Indian slums, an incentive for attending a target number of school days … increased average attendance when the incentive was in place, but had heterogeneous effects after it was removed. Among students … with high baseline attendance, the post-incentive attendance returned to previous levels and test scores were unaffected …

This study presents an empirical examination of the factors influencing undergraduate students to choose enrollment in …

results suggest that there is also a significant difference in how undergraduate macroeconomics instructors responded to the …

the faculty’s average performance. An observed phenomenon at Stellenbosch University is the poor attendance of lecture and … literature, namely that lecture and tutorial attendance are important contributors to academic success. We also find that as …

Australia, Canada, Germany, and the United States experienced a substantial decline in undergraduate degrees in … trends, shifts in the gender composition of undergraduate populations, or changing interests of female students in any of the … education. Undergraduate economics degree counts for the U.S. updated through June 2000 are reported in the appendix. …

In a review of the purpose and structure of the undergraduate economics major, J. Siegfried et al. (1991) suggested …