TY - JOUR
T1 - The effect of employment on attendance
T2 - a response to ‘Identifying and understanding the drivers of student engagement’
AU - Hanretty, Christopher
PY - 2023/1/12
Y1 - 2023/1/12
N2 - I challenge Strong’s (2022) findings that student employment is not related to attendance. I argue that the original analysis is guilty of controlling for a post-treatment variable. As a result, the coefficients in the regression model do not show how employment causes changes in attendance. I show that employment likely has a negative effect on attendance even given severe confounding. Academics should, if asked, tell students that their attendance will likely suffer the more paid work they do.
AB - I challenge Strong’s (2022) findings that student employment is not related to attendance. I argue that the original analysis is guilty of controlling for a post-treatment variable. As a result, the coefficients in the regression model do not show how employment causes changes in attendance. I show that employment likely has a negative effect on attendance even given severe confounding. Academics should, if asked, tell students that their attendance will likely suffer the more paid work they do.
U2 - 10.1177/02633957221148067
DO - 10.1177/02633957221148067
M3 - Article
SN - 0263-3957
JO - Politics
JF - Politics
ER -