The Review of Economics and Statistics Vol. 105 No. 4 2023
The Effects of Career and Technical Education: Evidence from the Connecticut Technical High School System
Abstract
We examine the effect of attending stand-alone technical high schools in Connecticut using regression discontinuity. Male students are 10 percentage points more likely to graduate from high school and have half a semester less time enrolled in college. Male students have 32% higher average quarterly earnings. Earnings effects may in part reflect general skills: male students have higher attendance rates and test scores, industry fixed effects explain less than one-third of earnings gains, and large earnings gains persist past traditional college going years. Attending a technical high school does not affect the outcomes of female students.
- DOI
- 10.1162/rest_a_01098
- Volume
- 105
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 867-882
- Language
- en
- Sources
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