Ruhr economic papers, No. 235 Provided in Cooperation with: RWI -Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Essen Suggested Citation: Grave, Barbara S. (2010) : The Effect of Student Time Allocation on Academic Achievement, Ruhr economic papers, No. 235, ISBN 978-3-86788-269-9, RWI, Essen This Version is available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/45296 Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen: Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und

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... rt werden. Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen. Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Abstract There is a large literature on the infl uence of institutional characteristics on student academic achievement. In contrast, relatively little research focuses on student time allocation and its eff ects on student performance. This paper contributes to the literature by investigating the eff ect of student time allocation on the average grade of undergraduate students, by gender, ability and fi eld of study. The results suggest that time spent on attending courses is positively associated with grades for females, high ability students and students of Social Sciences and Sciences/Engineering. , and two anonymous referees for helpful comments and suggestions. All remaining errors are my own. -All correspondence to Barbara S. Grave, RWI, 45128 Essen, Germany, E-Mail: barbara.grave@rwi-essen.de. 2 Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia have charged tuition fees since the Winter Semester 2006/07, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Bavaria, and Hamburg since the Summer Semester 2007 and Saarland since the Winter Semester 2007/08. Hesse charged tuition fees only in the Winter Semester 2007/08 and the following Summer Semester. 3 On average, tuition fees contribute 10% to total revenues. 4 The remaining revenues from tuition fees were spent on the improvement of equipment (28%), on Student Advisory Service (5%), on pilot projects for new forms of learning (3%) and on the administration of tuition fees (1%).