TY  - JOUR
AU  - Neumark,David
AU  - Rothstein,Donna
TI  - Do School-To-Work Programs Help the "Forgotten Half"?
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 11636
PY  - 2005
Y2  - September 2005
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11636
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11636.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 S. Rothstein
2 Massachusetts Ave. NE
Room 4945
Washington DC 20212
E-Mail: rothstein.donna@bls.gov
AB  - This paper tests whether school-to-work (STW) programs are particularly beneficial for those less likely to go to college in their absence%u2014%u2014often termed the %u201C%u201Cforgotten half%u201D%u201D in the STW literature. The empirical analysis is based on the NLSY97, which allows us to study six types of STW programs, including job shadowing, mentoring, coop, school enterprises, tech prep, and internships/apprenticeships. For men there is quite a bit of evidence that STW program participation is particularly advantageous for those in the forgotten half. For these men, specifically, mentoring and coop programs increase post-secondary education, and coop, school enterprise, and internship/apprenticeship programs boost employment and decrease idleness after leaving high school. There is less evidence that STW programs are particularly beneficial for women in the forgotten half, although internship/apprenticeship programs do lead to positive earnings effects concentrated among these women.
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