Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Holford, Angus
Title: Youth employment and academic performance: production functions and policy effects
Abstract: This paper proposes an approach to identifying the education production function with endogenous inputs, and applies it in the context of part-time employment decisions by UK teenagers in compulsory education. We identify simultaneously the effect of part-time employment and latent endogenous inputs including study effort, at different points in time, and compare the reduced-form effect of having a job while at school with the production function parameter. Part-time employment is shown to reduce academic performance among girls but not boys. We present evidence that this is due to employment crowding out a wider range of productive activities among girls than boys.

Creation-Date: 20150327
Number: 2015-06
Publication-Status: published
File-URL: https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/files/working-papers/iser/2015-06.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
Handle: RePEc:ese:iserwp:2015-06