The Effects of Career and Technical Education: Evidence from the Connecticut Technical High School System

Eric Brunner, Shaun Dougherty and Stephen Ross

No 28790, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: We examine the effect of attending stand-alone technical high schools on student short- and long-term outcomes using a regression discontinuity design. Male students are 10 percentage points more likely to graduate from high school and have half a semester less time enrolled in college, although effects on college fade-out. Male students have 32% higher quarterly earnings. Earnings effects may in part reflect general skills: male students have higher attendance rates and test scores, and industry fixed effects explain less than 1/3rd of earnings gains. We find little evidence that attending a technical high school affects the outcomes of female students.

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Date: 2021-05
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Published as Eric J. Brunner, Shaun M. Dougherty, Stephen L. Ross; The Effects of Career and Technical Education: Evidence from the Connecticut Technical High School System. The Review of Economics and Statistics 2021

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