Student Employment and Persistence: Evidence of Effect Heterogeneity of Student Employment on College Dropout

Yool Choi ()
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Yool Choi: Korea National University of Education

Research in Higher Education, 2018, vol. 59, issue 1, No 4, 88-107

Abstract: Abstract This study explores how student employment affects college persistence and how these effects differ by individual likelihood of participating in student employment. I analyze data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 using propensity score matching and stratification-multilevel analysis. This study finds that engaging in intense work has deleterious effects on college persistence. However, these negative effects vary significantly according to likelihood of participation in intense work. The results indicate that employment has less negative impacts on completion for those most likely to participate in intense work, who are typically those from the most disadvantaged social backgrounds. This finding suggests that efforts to reduce the deleterious effects of intense work on persistence should be practiced with careful consideration for sub-populations that may have different reasons for and effects of student employment.

Keywords: Student employment; Dropout; Effect heterogeneity; National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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