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Title: Does Time to Work Limit Time to Play?: Estimating a Time Allocation Model for High School Students by Household Income

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Publication Year: 2016

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Abstract: To understand how high school students substitute time between human capital building activities, we use data from the 2003 - 2014 waves of the American Time Use Survey to estimate the causal effect of work time on extracurricular time. Our paper estimates heterogeneous effects by household income to test whether low-income students, who may be more likely to work during high school to supplement household income, are more likely to substitute time away from extracurriculars. We find that working has a negative effect on the likelihood of and minutes engaged in extracurriculars, though the effect is primarily due to engagement in work rather than minutes worked. While students in lower income households are less likely to engage in extracurriculars, we find no evidence of heterogeneous effects of working on extracurriculars by income. These findings are important for policy makers and school administrators who are promoting after school activities, as well as those who are interested in understanding the full impact of high school employment.

Url: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2784795

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Authors: Crispin, Laura M; Kofoed, Michael S

Publisher: Saint Joseph's University - Economics

Data Collections: IPUMS Time Use - ATUS

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other, Poverty and Welfare

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