Browsing Geary Institute Working Papers by Subject "Academic achievement"

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Micro-level determinants of lecture attendance and additional study-hours

Ryan, Martin ; Delaney, Liam ; Harmon, Colm (University College Dublin. School of EconomicsUniversity College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2010-08)

This paper uses novel measures of individual differences that produce new insights about student inputs into the (higher) education production function. The inputs examined are lecture attendance and additional study-hours. ...
Money, mentoring and making friends : the impact of a multidimensional access program on student performance

Denny, Kevin ; Doyle, Orla ; O'Reilly, Patricia ; O'Sullivan, Vincent (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-04-07)

There is a well established socioeconomic gradient in educational attainment, despite much effort in recent decades to address this inequality. This study evaluates a university access program that provides financial, ...
Parental education, grade attainment and earnings expectations among university students

Delaney, Liam ; Harmon, Colm ; Redmond, Cathy (University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2010-08-11)

While there is an extensive literature on intergenerational transmission of economic outcomes (education, health and income for example), many of the pathways through which these outcomes are transmitted are not as well ...