TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schwartz,Amy Ellen
AU  - Leos-Urbel,Jacob
AU  - McMurry,Joel
AU  - Wiswall,Matthew
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Making Summer Matter: The Impact of Youth Employment on Academic Performance 
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - August 2015; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - 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
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w21470
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w21470
ER  -