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Author: Babcock, Philip
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Babcock, Philip Marks, Mindy S. |
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Leisure College, USA: The Decline in Student Study Time American Enterprise Institute Education Outlook 7 (August 2010). Also: http://www.aei.org/files/2010/08/05/07-EduO-Aug-2010-g-new.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research Keyword(s): College Education; Extracurricular Activities/Sports; Human Capital; National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE); Project Talent; Time Use Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. In 1961, the average full-time student at a four-year college in the United States studied about twenty-four hours per week, while his modern counterpart puts in only fourteen hours per week. Students now study less than half as much as universities claim to require. This dramatic decline in study time occurred for students from all demographic subgroups, for students who worked and those who did not, within every major, and at four-year colleges of every type, degree structure, and level of selectivity. Most of the decline predates the innovations in technology that are most relevant to education and thus was not driven by such changes. The most plausible explanation for these findings, we conclude, is that standards have fallen at postsecondary institutions in the United States. |
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Babcock, Philip and Mindy S. Marks. "Leisure College, USA: The Decline in Student Study Time." American Enterprise Institute Education Outlook 7 (August 2010).
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Babcock, Philip Marks, Mindy S. |
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The Falling Time Cost of College: Evidence from Half a Century of Time Use Data Review of Economics and Statistics 93,2 (May 2011): 468-478. Also: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/REST_a_00093 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: MIT Press Keyword(s): College Cost; College Education; Human Capital; Time Use Using multiple data sets 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. |
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Bibliography Citation
Babcock, Philip and Mindy S. Marks. "The Falling Time Cost of College: Evidence from Half a Century of Time Use Data." Review of Economics and Statistics 93,2 (May 2011): 468-478.
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