TY  - JOUR
AU  - Neumark,David
AU  - Rothstein,Donna
TI  - School-to-Career Programs and Transitions to Employment and Higher Education
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 10060
PY  - 2003
Y2  - November 2003
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w10060
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w10060.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
David Neumark
Department of Economics
University of California at Irvine
3151 Social Science Plaza
Irvine, CA  92697
Tel: 949-824-8496
Fax: 949/824-2182
E-Mail: dneumark@uci.edu

Donna Rothstein
AB  - The 1994 Federal School-to-Work Opportunities Act (STWOA) provided more than $1.5 billion over five years to support increased career preparation activities in the country's public schools. However, the STWOA was not re-authorized, so state governments face decisions about levels of funding support for school-to-career (STC) programs. Coupled with the availability of a new longitudinal data source with rich information on STC programs   the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY97)   it is therefore an opportune time to study the effectiveness of STC programs. This paper uses the NLSY97 to assess the effects of STC programs on transitions to employment and higher education among youths leaving high school, with a focus on estimating the causal effects of this participation given possible non-random selection of youths into STC programs.
ER  -