The Effect of School-Year Employment on Cognitive Skills, Risky Behavior, and Educational Achievement

Rune Vammen Lesner, Anna Damm (), Preben Bertelsen and Mads Uffe Pedersen

Economics of Education Review, 2022, vol. 88, issue C

Abstract: We estimate the causal effect of hours of employment during the final year of compulsory school on cognitive skills, risky behavior, and educational achievement. The effect is identified by exploiting variation in hours of school-year employment between employed twins and estimation of a value-added model using administrative registers. Increasing hours of school-year employment increases grades in the school exit exams, reduces juvenile delinquency in the following year, and increases the years of schooling attained by age 20. If anything, increasing hours of school-year employment reduces school dropout and school absence. Our results are consistent with a non-linear effect of employment intensity on educational achievement and employment being preventive of risky behavior.

Keywords: Labor supply; Human capital; Competencies; Skills; Education; Crime; Risky behavior (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 J22 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2022.102241

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