Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/126480 
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Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Working Paper Series No. 2015-06
Publisher: 
University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), Colchester
Abstract: 
This paper proposes an approach to identifying the education production function with endogenous inputs, and applies it in the context of part-time employment decisions by UK teenagers in compulsory education. We identify simultaneously the effect of part-time employment and latent endogenous inputs including study effort, at different points in time, and compare the reduced-form effect of having a job while at school with the production function parameter. Part-time employment is shown to reduce academic performance among girls but not boys. We present evidence that this is due to employment crowding out a wider range of productive activities among girls than boys.
Subjects: 
labour supply
human capital
education production function
child development
JEL: 
C35
I21
J22
J24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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