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Are there returns to the wages of young men from working while in school?

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Joseph Hotz, V; Xu, LC; Tienda, M; Ahituv, A
Published in: Review of Economics and Statistics
May 1, 2002

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. We evaluate the extent to which these estimates represent causal effects by assessing the robustness of prior findings to controls for unobserved heterogeneity and sample selectivity. We explore 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). We find 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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Review of Economics and Statistics

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0034-6535

Publication Date

May 1, 2002

Volume

84

Issue

2

Start / End Page

221 / 236

Related Subject Headings

  • Economics
  • 3802 Econometrics
  • 3801 Applied economics
  • 3502 Banking, finance and investment
  • 1403 Econometrics
  • 1402 Applied Economics
 

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Joseph Hotz, V., Xu, L. C., Tienda, M., & Ahituv, A. (2002). Are there returns to the wages of young men from working while in school? Review of Economics and Statistics, 84(2), 221–236. https://doi.org/10.1162/003465302317411497
Joseph Hotz, V., L. C. Xu, M. Tienda, and A. Ahituv. “Are there returns to the wages of young men from working while in school?Review of Economics and Statistics 84, no. 2 (May 1, 2002): 221–36. https://doi.org/10.1162/003465302317411497.
Joseph Hotz V, Xu LC, Tienda M, Ahituv A. Are there returns to the wages of young men from working while in school? Review of Economics and Statistics. 2002 May 1;84(2):221–36.
Joseph Hotz, V., et al. “Are there returns to the wages of young men from working while in school?Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 84, no. 2, May 2002, pp. 221–36. Scopus, doi:10.1162/003465302317411497.
Joseph Hotz V, Xu LC, Tienda M, Ahituv A. Are there returns to the wages of young men from working while in school? Review of Economics and Statistics. 2002 May 1;84(2):221–236.
Journal cover image

Published In

Review of Economics and Statistics

DOI

ISSN

0034-6535

Publication Date

May 1, 2002

Volume

84

Issue

2

Start / End Page

221 / 236

Related Subject Headings

  • Economics
  • 3802 Econometrics
  • 3801 Applied economics
  • 3502 Banking, finance and investment
  • 1403 Econometrics
  • 1402 Applied Economics