Making Summer Matter: The Impact of Youth Employment on Academic Performance /
Schwartz, Amy Ellen.
Making Summer Matter: The Impact of Youth Employment on Academic Performance / Amy Ellen Schwartz, Joel McMurry, Jacob Leos-Urbel, Matthew Wiswall. - Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2015. - 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white); - NBER working paper series no. w21470 . - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w21470. .
August 2015.
This paper examines New York City's Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP). SYEP provides jobs to youth ages 14-24, and due to high demand for summer jobs, allocates slots through a random lottery system. We match student-level data from the SYEP program with educational records from the NYC Department of Education and use the random lottery to estimate the effects of SYEP participation on a number of academic outcomes, including test taking and performance. We find that SYEP participation has positive impacts on student academic outcomes, and these effects are particularly large for students who participate in SYEP multiple times.
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Making Summer Matter: The Impact of Youth Employment on Academic Performance / Amy Ellen Schwartz, Joel McMurry, Jacob Leos-Urbel, Matthew Wiswall. - Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2015. - 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white); - NBER working paper series no. w21470 . - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w21470. .
August 2015.
This paper examines New York City's Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP). SYEP provides jobs to youth ages 14-24, and due to high demand for summer jobs, allocates slots through a random lottery system. We match student-level data from the SYEP program with educational records from the NYC Department of Education and use the random lottery to estimate the effects of SYEP participation on a number of academic outcomes, including test taking and performance. We find that SYEP participation has positive impacts on student academic outcomes, and these effects are particularly large for students who participate in SYEP multiple times.
System requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.