Youth Employment and Academic Performance in High School

Zvi Eckstein () and Kenneth Wolpin ()
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Kenneth Wolpin: University of Pennsylvania

No 18, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: A fundamental premise of Federal and State legislation that restricts the hours that minors can be employed while school is in session is that working may adversely affect school performence. In this paper, we develop and structurally estimate a sequential of high school attendance and work decicions. Policy experiments based on the models estimates indicate that even the most restrictive prohibition would have only a limited impact on the high school graduation rates of with males.

Keywords: school attendance; working decisions; working hours (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I28 J22 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 63 pages
Date: 1998-08
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Working Paper: Youth Employment and Academic Performance in High School (1998)
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