| John Warren
University of Washington
Trends in the selectivity and consequences of adolescent employment, 1966-1997
FINAL REPORT:
We address three questions in this paper. First, how did paid employment behaviors among high school students change between 1966 and 1997? Second, how did the demographic, socioeconomic, and academic selectivity of the employed and intensively employed student populations change between 1966 and 1997? Third, how did the conditional association between sophomore-year employment and high school dropout change between 1966 and 1992? We make use of 5 nationally representative data sets -- spanning the years 1966 to 1997 -- that contain samples of high school sophomores and/or seniors and that allow us to construct comparable measures across surveys. We find few changes in overall rates of employment or intensive employment since about 1980, but important changes over that time in gender differences in employment and intensive employment. Finally, we observe that the relationship between intensive employment and dropout has been stable and persistently large since the late 1960s.
Back to Funded Research Grants Page |