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 …

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 …

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

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

online, across five undergraduate business courses taught at Elon University during the summer 2007 session. This study …

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