A study of the effects of working on the academic performance of higher education students

• Grant number: 17/14510-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: September 01, 2017
• End date: May 31, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Economics - Economics of Human Resources
• Principal Investigator: Fernanda Gonçalves de La Fuente Estevan
• Grantee: Lucas Amici Della Rocca
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade (FEA). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This study examines the effects of working during higher education on academic performance using administrative data from FEA-USP. Strategies to identify the causal relationship between working and academic performance, using as an outcome measure grade points average and credits completed, include OLS regression, student-level fixed effects to control for permanent unobserved characteristics, and an instrumental variables approach, which takes advantage of unique institutional details of the work-study program to address for potential problems associated with endogeneity. (AU)