Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/145143 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 10009
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We identify the effects of part-time employment, study time at home, and attitudes in school, in the production function for educational performance among UK teenagers in compulsory education. Our approach identifies the factors driving differences between the reduced form 'policy effect' of in-school employment, and its direct effect or 'production function parameter'. Part-time employment is shown to reduce performance among girls but not boys, because employment crowds out both study time at home and positive attitude in school to a greater extent for girls than boys. Part-time work also induces earlier initiation into risky behaviours for 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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