The falling time cost of college
Subtitle: evidence from half a century of time use data
By: Philip S. Babcock, Mindy Marks
Contributors: Marks, Mindy; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 15954; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 15954.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Description: "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"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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