TY - JOUR
T1 - Good students, avid readers: The cost of academic success
AU - Scorcu, A. E.
AU - Vici, L.
AU - ZANOLA, Roberto
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Authors. Bulletin of Economic Research published by Board of Trustees of the Bulletin of Economic Research and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The effects of reading habits on academic performances have been carefully investigated, but little is known about the effects of academic achievements on students’ leisure reading. This paper investigates this issue by estimating the effects of academic achievements, proxied by the number of exams passed, on leisure reading, measured by the number of leisure books read in a year. Using an online survey submitted to the students at the University of Bologna, Italy, we adopt a two-step control-function technique to control for endogeneity. The empirical evidence suggests the existence of a negative relationship between students’ academic achievements and the time devoted to leisure reading. This result holds for students of different fields of study and is stronger for male students. The Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition supports the existence of a gender-specific idiosyncratic effect.
AB - The effects of reading habits on academic performances have been carefully investigated, but little is known about the effects of academic achievements on students’ leisure reading. This paper investigates this issue by estimating the effects of academic achievements, proxied by the number of exams passed, on leisure reading, measured by the number of leisure books read in a year. Using an online survey submitted to the students at the University of Bologna, Italy, we adopt a two-step control-function technique to control for endogeneity. The empirical evidence suggests the existence of a negative relationship between students’ academic achievements and the time devoted to leisure reading. This result holds for students of different fields of study and is stronger for male students. The Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition supports the existence of a gender-specific idiosyncratic effect.
UR - https://iris.uniupo.it/handle/11579/146799
M3 - Article
SN - 0307-3378
SP - 1
EP - 16
JO - Bulletin of Economic Research
JF - Bulletin of Economic Research
ER -