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 …

-referenced) and the relative (i.e., norm-referenced) grading schemes in a large-scale field experiment at a university. We hypothesize …

-referenced) and the relative (i.e., norm-referenced) grading schemes in a large-scale field experiment at a university. We hypothesize …

-referenced) and the relative (i.e., norm-referenced) grading schemes in a large-scale field experiment at a university. We hypothesize …

-referenced) and the relative (i.e., norm-referenced) grading schemes in a large-scale field experiment at a university. We hypothesize …