authors
- DOLADO LOBREGAD, JUAN JOSE
- Morales, Eduardo
Which Factors Determine Academic Performance of Economics Freshers?: Some Spanish Evidence
Articles
Overview
published in
- Investigaciones Economicas Journal
publication date
- May 2009
start page
- 179
end page
- 210
issue
- 2
volume
- 33
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 0210-1521
Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)
- 1575-4367
abstract
- This paper analyses the impact of several factors potentially affecting academic performance of first-year undergraduates (freshers) in Economics at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid during 2002-2005. Outcomes are the grades obtained in three core subjects which differ substantially in their requirements of math skills. Our main finding is that those students who completed a technical track at high school tend to perform much better in math-intensive subjects than those who followed a social sciences track and that the latter do not perform better in subjects where prior training in economics is bound to be helpful.