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Title: Are There Returns to the Wages of Young Men from Working While in School?
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Hotz, V. Joseph Xu, Lixin Colin Tienda, Marta Ahituv, Avner |
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Are There Returns to the Wages of Young Men from Working While in School? Review of Economics and Statistics 84,2 (May 2002): 221-236. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3211773 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Harvard University Press Keyword(s): Height; High School; Part-Time Work; Wage Rates; Wages, Youth; Work Experience Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper examines the effects of work experience acquired while youth were in high school (and college) on young men's wage rates. Previous studies have found sizeable and persistent rates of return to working while enrolled in school, especially high school, on subsequent wage growth. The extent to which these estimates represent causal effects by assessing the robustness of prior findings to controls for unobserved heterogeneity and sample selectivity are evaluated. More-general econometric methods for dealing with the dynamic of selection and apply them to data on young men from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79) are explored. It is found that the estimated returns to working while in high school or college are dramatically diminished in magnitude and are not statistically significant when one applies dynamic selection methods. |
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Hotz, V. Joseph, Lixin Colin Xu, Marta Tienda and Avner Ahituv. "Are There Returns to the Wages of Young Men from Working While in School?" Review of Economics and Statistics 84,2 (May 2002): 221-236.
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