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Paid work and time devoted to higher education
[Activité rémunérée et temps consacré aux études supérieures]

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  • François-Charles Wolff

    (LEMNA - Laboratoire d'économie et de management de Nantes Atlantique - IEMN-IAE Nantes - Institut d'Économie et de Management de Nantes - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises - Nantes - UN - Université de Nantes, INED - Institut national d'études démographiques)

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This paper investigates one causal mechanism by which a student's job can affect academic success. Students devoting time to paid work are expected to face more difficulties attending courses and to have less time to spend on homework. Our empirical analysis, which is based on five cross-sectional data sets collected in France from 1997 to 2010, examines the joint decision of work and time study of around 80,000 students enrolled from the first to the fifth year after the Baccalaureate. We turn to selection on unobservables and on observables models to account for the endogeneity of in-school work. We find that students with a paid job spend significantly less time both on attending courses and on homework. The negative impact on time devoted to studies is much higher for students working at least half-time.

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  • François-Charles Wolff, 2017. "Paid work and time devoted to higher education [Activité rémunérée et temps consacré aux études supérieures]," Working Papers halshs-01649453, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:wpaper:halshs-01649453
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    étudiants; activité rémunérée; travail personnel;
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