The Falling Time Cost of College: Evidence from Half a Century of Time Use Data
By Philip S. Babcock, M. Marks. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010
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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Education
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Citations in the corpus
- The Medium-Term Labor Market Returns to Community College Awards: Evidence From North Carolina (2014, background): “Changes in student quality may be reflected in longer time to completion or in less time spent on learning in college (Babcock & Marks, 2011; Bound, Lovenheim, & Turner, 2010).”
- Student Evaluations of Teaching Encourages Poor Teaching and Contributes to Grade Inflation: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis (2020, background): “…have not become more hardworking or better qualified for college.3 On the contrary, SAT scores show a downward trend (e.g., Adams, 2015; Washington Post, 2015), and students spend less time on academic pursuits today than they did a few decades ago (e.g., Arum & Roksa, 2011; Babcock & Marks, 2011).”
- The Increasing Complementarity between Cognitive and Social Skills (2014, background): “However, note that the enormous increase in the share of high school students spending substantial time on homework might partially offset the decline in hours of study among college students documented by Babcock and Marks (2011).”
- The interplay of perceived stress, self-determination and school engagement in adolescence (2014, background): “Keeping in mind that many students lack motivation and withdraw from school engagement nowadays (Babcock & Marks, 2011), it is important to examine how stress may play a role in this, beyond any possible pathological variables.”
- What happens after enrollment? An analysis of the time path of racial differences in GPA and major choice (2012, background): “25Babcock (2010), Babcock and Marks (2011) and Stinebrickner and Stinebrickner (2008) also show large differences in study time across majors. Babcock (2010) provides evidence that harsher grade distributions result are associated with more study time. 26If economics were classified as social scienc”
- Where a is Ordinary: The Evolution of American College and University Grading, 1940-2009 (2012, background): “Students are studying about 10 hours a week less today than they did in the 1960s (Babcock & Marks, 2010).”
- Natural Learning in Higher Education (2010, background): “This dropped steadily since that time, to 27 hours per week by 2003 (Babcock and Marks 2010).”