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Title:	The effect of attendance on grade for first year economics students in University College Cork
Author:	Kirby, Ann McElroy, Brendan
Keywords:	University attendance Ireland University grades Undergraduates
Issue Date:	2003
Publisher:	Economic & Social Research Institute
Citation:	Kirby, Ann; McElroy, Brendan. 'The effect of attendance on grade for first year economics students in University College Cork'. - Economic & Social Review, Vol. 34, No. 3, Winter, 2003, pp. 311–326, Dublin: Economic & Social Research Institute
Abstract:	This paper examines the relationship between attendance and grade, controlling for other factors, in first year economics courses in University College Cork. Determinants of both class attendance and grade are specified and estimated. We find that attendance is low, at least by comparison with US evidence. Hours worked and travel time are among the factors affecting class attendance. Class attendance, and especially tutorial attendance has a positive and diminishing marginal effect on grade, while hours worked in a part-time job have a significant negative effect on grade.
Description:	Paper presented at the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Irish Economic Association, Limerick, 2003
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/2262/61584
ISSN:	00129984
Appears in Collections:	The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 34, No. 3, Winter, 2003 Economic and Social Review Archive: Complete Collection 1969-

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