TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Buscha, Franz
AU  - Maurel, Arnaud
AU  - Page, Lionel
AU  - Speckesser, Stefan
        TI  - The Effect of High School Employment on Educational Attainment: A Conditional Difference-in-Differences Approach
        PY  - 2008/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 3696
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp3696
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - evaluation
KW  - propensity score matching
KW  - education
        ER  -