Erschienen in:ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research Discussion Paper ; No. 15-085
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1 Online-Ressource (24 p)
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Englisch
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.2712327
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Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments December 2015 erstellt
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We estimate the effects of student employment on academic performance. Performance is measured by grades achieved one and a half years after entering university. We use the amount of financial aid students receive after application as a source of exogenous variation in the probability or being employed to correct for potential endogeneity bias. We find no evidence that student employment is detrimental to academic performance, even for a larger number of hours worked per week. There is significant selection of students into different types of student employment