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The Falling Time Cost of College: Evidence from Half a Century of Time Use Data / Philip S. Babcock, Mindy Marks.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Babcock, Philip S.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w15954.
- NBER working paper series no. w15954
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- The Falling Time Cost of College
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2010.
- Summary:
- Using multiple datasets from different time periods, we document declines in academic time investment by full-time college students in the United States between 1961 and 2003. Full-time students allocated 40 hours per week toward class and studying in 1961, whereas by 2003 they were investing about 27 hours per week. Declines were extremely broad-based, and are not easily accounted for by framing effects, work or major choices, or compositional changes in students or schools. We conclude that there have been substantial changes over time in the quantity or manner of human capital production on college campuses.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- April 2010.
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