Johan N.M. Lagerlöf and Andrew J. Seltzer (2007) The Effects of Remedial Mathematics on the Learning of Economics: A Natural Experiment..
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This paper examines the effects of remedial mathematics on performance in university-level economics courses using a natural experiment. We study exam results prior and subsequent to the implementation of a remedial mathematics course that was compulsory for a sub-set of students and unavailable for the others, controlling for background variables. We find that, consistent with previous studies, the level of and performance in secondary-school mathematics has strong predictive power on students’ performance at university-level economics. However, the evidence for a positive effect of remedial mathematics on student performance is relatively weak and is limited to a few sub-groups of students.
This is a Accepted version This version's date is: 2007 This item is not peer reviewed
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