Douglas Daniel, Attewell Paul
Trinity College, Hartford, CT, United States.
The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, United States.
Front Sociol. 2019 Dec 10;4:78. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2019.00078. eCollection 2019.
Prior research suggests that undergraduates employed during term time are less likely to graduate. Using transcript data from a large multi-campus university in the United States, combined with student earnings data from state administrative records, the authors find that traditional-age students who worked for pay during college on average earned more after leaving college than similar students who did not work. This post-college earnings premium is on par with the benefit from completing a degree, even after controlling for demographic and academic achievement characteristics, across various student sub-groups, and including models that account for selection bias. Implications of these findings for theories of education and social stratification, and for educational policy are considered.
先前的研究表明，在学期期间打工的本科生毕业的可能性较小。作者利用美国一所大型多校区大学的成绩单数据，结合州行政记录中的学生收入数据，发现传统年龄段的学生在大学期间从事有偿工作，毕业后平均比未工作的类似学生收入更高。即使在控制了人口统计学和学业成绩特征之后，在不同的学生亚组中，包括考虑了选择偏差的模型中，这种大学毕业后的收入溢价与完成学位所带来的收益相当。本文还探讨了这些发现对教育和社会分层理论以及教育政策的影响。
