Minimum wages and school enrollment of teenagers: a look at the 1990's.

Autor/inn/en	Chaplin, Duncan D.; Turner, Mark D.; Pape, Andreas D.
Titel	Minimum wages and school enrollment of teenagers: a look at the 1990's.
Quelle	In: Economics of education review, 22 (2003) 1, S. 11-21Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben 21; Tabellen 3
Sprache	englisch; englische Zusammenfassung
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-7757
DOI	10.1016/S0272-7757(02)00027-4
Schlagwörter	Empirische Untersuchung; Eltern; Schulbesuch; Einkommen; Arbeitnehmer; USA
Abstract	Interest in the effects of the minimum wage on teenagers' school enrollment has grown in recent years. ... Some authors argue that higher minimum wages will hurt teenagers by lowering their school enrollment. In this paper we estimate the effects of higher minimum wages on school enrollment using the Common Core of Data, collected by the US Department of Education. These data cover the entire population of public school students in the United States. Controlling for local labor market conditions and state and year fixed effects we find some evidence that higher minimum wages reduce teen school enrollment in states where students can drop out before the age of 18. This appears to be driven by the grade 9 to grade 10 transition. We find no effects for higher-grade levels or in states where students cannot drop out until they are 18. This suggests that minimum wages may have a substantial effect on teens' schooling effort in these early grades but also that these unintended effects can be offset by policies that encourage continued school enrollment. (DIPF/Orig.)
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2004_(CD)