Youth Employment and Academic Performance: Production Functions and Policy Effects

Angus Holford

No 10009, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We identify the effects of part-time employment, study time at home, and attitudes in school, in the production function for educational performance among UK teenagers in compulsory education. Our approach identifies the factors driving differences between the reduced form 'policy effect' of in-school employment, and its direct effect or 'production function parameter'. Part-time employment is shown to reduce performance among girls but not boys, because employment crowds out both study time at home and positive attitude in school to a greater extent for girls than boys. Part-time work also induces earlier initiation into risky behaviours for girls than boys.

Keywords: education production function; human capital; labour supply; child development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C35 I21 J22 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 66 pages
Date: 2016-06
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Published - published in: Labout Economics, 2020, 63, 101806

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