Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/148056 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
cege Discussion Papers No. 291
Publisher: 
University of Göttingen, Center for European, Governance and Economic Development Research (cege), Göttingen
Abstract: 
This paper analyzes professors' effect from a fundamental first-year course in Economics on students' later performance in follow-on courses with a special attention given to the problem of self-selection bias of students toward certain professors. Based on an extensive dataset consisting of administrative data on more than 2, 900 students from the university of Göttingen, an instrumental variable (IV) strategy is used. The obtained results indicate that professors have powerful effects on students' achievement. However, the sign of this effect is ambiguous, and depends on the mathematical rigor of the course and the examination style.
Subjects: 
university
education
grade inflation
JEL: 
I23
I21
I28
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size
431.58 kB





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.