Time Spent on Academic and Social Activities, Achievement, and Student Term-Time Employment: A Panel Data Approach

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Abstract

This paper examines student employment and related outcomes using a nationally representative data from the NLSY97 and simultaneous Tobit regressions as well as Simultaneous models with fixed effects. The analysis uses detailed information on college student time use and confirms the predictions in the theoretical model that longer employment hours affect achievement negatively and also affect student time use, especially time dedicated to social and academic out of class activities. Evidence points to the fact that employment lowers the amount of time students spend on academic work as well as out of class activities that are positively related to achievement.

Author

• Osundwa F. Wanjera, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University