Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/215164 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 12768
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We find that mathematics skills have a stronger relationship to university performance than verbal skills. While both are predictive of degree completion and class of degree obtained, mathematics skills have a larger effect, and are particularly predictive of achieving a first-class honours degree and of high achievement in STEM courses.
Subjects: 
degree quality
quantitative and verbal skills
human capital
JEL: 
I23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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