Student employment and academic performance: an empirical exploration of the primary orientation theory
(2017) Applied Economics Letters — Vol. 25, n° 8, p. 547-552 (2017)
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- This study empirically assesses the thesis that student employment only hurts academic performance for students with a primary orientation towards work (versus school). To this end, we analyse unique data on tertiary education students’ intensity of and motivation for student employment by means of a state-of-the art moderation model. We find, indeed, only a negative association between hours of student work and the percentage of courses passed for work-oriented students. This finding may explain the contradictory results in the literature neglecting this factor.
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Baert, S., Marx, I., Neyt, B., Van Belle, E., & Van Casteren, J. (2017). Student employment and academic performance: an empirical exploration of the primary orientation theory. Applied Economics Letters, 25(8), 547-552. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2017.1343443 (Original work published 2017)