TY - JOUR AU - Ehrenberg,Ronald G. AU - Sherman,Daniel R. TI - Employment While in College, Academic Achievement and Post-College Outcomes: A Summary of Results JF - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series VL - No. 1742 PY - 1985 Y2 - October 1985 DO - 10.3386/w1742 UR - http://www.nber.org/papers/w1742 L1 - http://www.nber.org/papers/w1742.pdf N1 - Author contact info: Ronald G. Ehrenberg Cornell Higher Education Research Institute 271 Ives Hall East Ithaca, NY 14853-3901 Tel: 607/255-3026 Fax: 607 255 4496 E-Mail: rge2@cornell.edu AB - This paper uses panel data that cover the 1972-1979 period obtained from the National Longitudinal Survey of the High School Class of 1972 to study how male college students' employment while in college influences their academic performance, persistence in school, decisions to enroll in graduate school, and post-college labor market success. The analytic framework employed treats in-school employment as endogenous and determines persistence by a comparison of expected utilities. ER -