International student exchange and academic performance

Dirk Czarnitzki, Wytse Joosten and Otto Toivanen

No 21-011, ZEW Discussion Papers from ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research

Abstract: International student exchange has become an important part of university-level studies and the EU plans to increase it significantly. We analyze how international student exchange affects students' academic human capital. Using detailed student-level data from four faculties (Economics and Business, Law, Engineering and Science) of a large Belgian public university we find that, on average, exchange students lose 7% in terms of grades relative to their non-mobile peers, but less so in Erasmus-facilitated exchange. Since students' academic performance is an important factor in companies' hiring decisions, participation in international exchange seems to have a non-negligible impact on labor market outcomes.

Keywords: Exchange programs; student mobility; academic performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I23 I26 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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