The impact of class absenteeism on undergraduates’ academic performance: evidence from an elite Economics school in Portugal
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Keywords
Absenteeism; Academic performance; Economics; Management; University; Portugal;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
- I29 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Other
- J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EDU-2013-10-05 (Education)
- NEP-HRM-2013-10-05 (Human Capital & Human Resource Management)
- NEP-SOG-2013-10-05 (Sociology of Economics)
- NEP-URE-2013-10-05 (Urban & Real Estate Economics)
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