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.

Scorcu A.E., Vici L., Zanola R. (2023). Good students, avid readers: The cost of academic success. BULLETIN OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, 75(3), 609-624 [10.1111/boer.12373].

Good students, avid readers: The cost of academic success

Scorcu A. E.;Vici L.;Zanola R.
2023

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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.
2023
Scorcu A.E., Vici L., Zanola R. (2023). Good students, avid readers: The cost of academic success. BULLETIN OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, 75(3), 609-624 [10.1111/boer.12373].
Scorcu A.E.; Vici L.; Zanola R.
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