TY  - JOUR
TI  - Relationships between Risk Attitude, Academic Performance, and the Likelihood of Drop-outs
T2  - Educational Studies Moscow
IS  - Educational Studies Moscow
KW  - university
KW  - current academic achievement
KW  - expulsion
KW  - individual psychological characteristics
KW  - risk attitude
KW  - academic integration
AB  - Ekaterina Kochergina - Research Fellow, Yuri Levada Analytical Center Autonomous Nonprofit Organization. Address: 17 Nikolskaya str., 109012 Moscow, Russian Federation. E-mail: ekochergina@levada.ruIlya Prakhov - Candidate of Sciences in Economics, Associate Professor, Research Fellow, International Research Laboratory for Institutional Analysis of Economic Reforms, Center for Institutional Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics. Address: 20 Myasnitskaya str., 101000 Moscow, Russian Federation. E-mail: iprahov@hse.ruRegression analysis is used to explore the relationship between students’ risk attitudes and academic performance indicators: current academic achievement and the likelihood of dropping out. Using empirical data on students of a highly selective Russian university, we reveal a considerable positive correlation between risk acceptance and the likelihood of being expelled. We believe that conventional student integration and drop-out models could also consider such individual student characteristic as risk attitude. Normally, it did not use to be regarded as a factor influencing the likelihood of student departure. Risk attitude as an individual student characteristic can be involved in the process of academic integration, affecting its progress. More risk-averse students remain underintegrated in the academic environment, which is fraught with dropping out. 
AU  - Ekaterina Kochergina
AU  - Ilya Prakhov
UR  - https://archive_vo.hse.ru/en/2016--4/199089175.html
PY  - 2016
SP  - 206-228
VL  -