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Time-to-Degree and the Business Cycle
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Messer, Dolores; Wolter, Stefan C. – Education Economics, 2010
This paper presents the results of an empirical investigation trying to explain individual time-to-degree variances with business cycle fluctuations. Assuming that students determine the optimum study length at university weighing up the cost of an additional semester against the consumption benefit of studying and not yet working, the general…
Descriptors: Investigations, Student Attitudes, Economic Climate, Time to Degree