Choosing a Proxy for Academic Aptitude
Publication: Journal of Economic Education
Volume: Volume 37, No. 2
Issue: Spring 2006
Pages: 131-147
Author(s): Wayne A. Grove, Tim Wasserman, and Andrew Grodner
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Title: Choose a Proxy for Academic Aptitude
Abstract: The authors investigate how the proxy for academic ability affects estimates of undergraduate student learning of economics by testing over 150 alternative specifications. They find that collegiate GPA data offer the best proxy for students’ individual propensities to learn economics—a result that runs counter to researchers’ actual proxy choices.
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