Which factors determine academic performance of economics freshers?: some spanish evidence

• Autores: Juan José Dolado, Eduardo Morales
• Localización: Investigaciones económicas, ISSN 0210-1521, Vol. 33, Nº 2, 2009, págs. 179-210
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This paper analyses the impact of several factors potentially affecting academic performance of first-year undergraduates (freshers) in Economics at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid during 2002-2005. Outcomes are the grades obtained in three core subjects which di..er substantially in their requirements of math skills. Our main finding is that those students who completed a technical track at high school tend to perform much better in math-intensive subjects than those who followed a social sciences track and that the latter do not perform better in subjects where prior training in economics is bound to be helpful.