TY - RPRT AU - Eckstein, Zvi AU - Wolpin, Kenneth TI - Youth Employment and Academic Performance in High School PY - 1998/Aug/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 18 UR - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp18 AB - A fundamental premise of Federal and State legislation that restricts the hours that minors can be employed while school is in session is that working may adversely affect school performence. In this paper, we develop and structurally estimate a sequential of high school attendance and work decicions. Policy experiments based on the models estimates indicate that even the most restrictive prohibition would have only a limited impact on the high school graduation rates of with males. KW - school attendance KW - working decisions KW - working hours ER -