The effect of student time allocation on academic achievement

Education Economics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 291-310

  Grave, Barbara S ^a  

^a RWI LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Educational production function; Student performance; Student time allocation

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; STUDENT; TIME ALLOCATION;

EID: 79960760895     PISSN: 09645292     EISSN: 14695782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09645292.2011.585794     Document Type: Article

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