DOES SOCIO-ECONOMIC BACKGROUND AFFECT FIRST YEAR ECONOMICS PERFORMANCE? A PRELIMINARY STUDY *

It is widely reported that previous study in economics and maths play an important role in determining student performance in tertiary economics. This paper examines the determination of academic performance by adding a slightly broader range of factors that include socio-economic background to the main factors already identified in the literature. The paper regresses overall subject results for students enrolled in a core, first year economics...