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The Impact of Commuting on Higher Education Students' Academic Performance
Commuting is part of the daily lives particularly in large urban areas. We use a campus reallocation as a source of exogenous variation of commuting times to estimate the impact of commuting on students' outcomes. This is the first quasi-experimental study of the impact of commuting on higher education students' academic achievement. Our results show that an increase of 10 minutes in commuting time leads to a decrease between 6 p.p and 8 p.p of a standard deviation in the students' GPA.
