Volume 22, Number 1 (Winter) 1987
Ehrenberg, Ronald and Daniel R. Sherman. 1987. "Employment While in College, Academic Achievement, and Postcollege Outcomes: A Summary of Results." Journal of Human Resources 22(1):23.
This paper uses panel data that cover the 1972-79 period obtained from the National Longitudinal Survey of the High School Class of 1972 to study how male students' employment while in college influences their academic performance, persistence in school, decisions to enroll in graduate school, and postcollege labor market success. Its analytic framework treats in-school employment as endogenous and determines persistence by a comparison of expected utilities.
Ehrenberg is the Irving M. Ives professor of industrial and labor relations and economics at Cornell University and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Sherman is a staff economist at the Federal Trade Commission. Their research was conducted under National Science Foundation grant SES-83052052. They are grateful to the Foundation for its support and to two anonymous referees for their comments. A longer version of the paper (Ehrenberg and Sherman 1985) contains more complete tables of results. The conclusions reached by the authors are strictly their own and do not represent the positions of any of the above named organizations.
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