%0 Report
        %A Buscha, Franz
%A Maurel, Arnaud
%A Page, Lionel
%A Speckesser, Stefan
        %T The Effect of High School Employment on Educational Attainment: A Conditional Difference-in-Differences Approach
        %D 2008
        %8 2008 Sep
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 3696
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp3696
        %X Using American panel data from the National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88) this paper investigates the effect of working during grade 12 on attainment. We exploit the longitudinal nature of the NELS by employing, for the first time in the related literature, a semiparametric propensity score matching approach combined with difference-in- differences. This identification strategy allows us to address in a flexible way selection on both observables and unobservables associated with part-time work decisions. Once such factors are controlled for, insignificant effects on reading and math scores are found. We show that these results are robust to a matching approach combined with difference-in-difference-in-differences which allows differential time trends in attainment according to the working status in grade 12.
        %K evaluation
%K propensity score matching
%K education