TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Flagner, Stefan
AU  - Eichholtz, Piet
AU  - Kok, Nils
AU  - Kramer, Rick
AU  - Künn, Steffen
AU  - Lichtenbelt, Wouter van Marken
AU  - Plasqui, Guy
AU  - Sun, Xudong
        TI  - Indoor Environment, Student Satisfaction and Performance in Higher Education
        PY  - 2026/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 18697
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp18697
        AB  - This study examines how improvements in indoor environmental quality affect student satisfaction and academic performance in higher education. We conducted a randomized field experiment involving 1,258 first-year undergraduate students at Maastricht University, who were randomly assigned to tutorial groups located either in a recently renovated building with improved indoor environmental quality or in a conventional control building. We find that students in the treatment building report significantly higher satisfaction with indoor environmental quality and the overall learning environment. However, these improvements do not translate into measurable effects on academic performance, study effort, or tutor evaluations.
        KW  - indoor environmental quality
KW  - higher education
KW  - human capital accumulation
KW  - satisfaction
KW  - field experiment
        ER  -