Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/245585 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 14534
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We study whether living in a student room as a tertiary education student (instead of commuting between one's parental residence and college or university) affects exam results. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to study this relationship beyond cross-sectional analysis. That is, we exploit rich longitudinal data on 1,653 Belgian freshmen students' residential status and exam scores to control for observed heterogeneity as well as for individual fixed (or random) effects. We find that after correcting for unobserved heterogeneity, the association found in earlier contributions disappears. This finding of no significant impact of living in a student room on exam results is robust for other methods used for causal inference including instrumental variable techniques.
Subjects: 
longitudinal data
exam scores
residential status
causality
JEL: 
I23
J24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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