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College internships, tenure gaps, and student outcomes: a multiple-treatment matching approach

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  • P. Wesley Routon
  • Jay K. Walker

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College internships are popular and often promoted. Quantifying their impacts is difficult as students often take time away from classes to participate. We implement multiple-treatment propensity score matching to untangle the simultaneous effects of internships and discontinuous college tenure. Using a sample of over 442,000 students from 619 US institutions, we estimate their on academic performance, human and social capital gains, college satisfaction, and post-graduation goals. Many of the benefits of internships would be underestimated if discontinuous college tenure were unaccounted for. In other words, students completing an internship without a break from classes are more changed by their experience.

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  • P. Wesley Routon & Jay K. Walker, 2019. "College internships, tenure gaps, and student outcomes: a multiple-treatment matching approach," Education Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(4), pages 383-400, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:edecon:v:27:y:2019:i:4:p:383-400
    DOI: 10.1080/09645292.2019.1598336
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    1. Marina Bassi & Lelys Dinarte-Diaz & Maria Marta Ferreyra & Sergio Urzua, 2023. "What Makes a Program Good? Evidence from Short-Cycle Higher Education Programs in Five Developing Countries," CESifo Working Paper Series 10255, CESifo.
    2. Dinarte-Diaz, Lelys & Ferreyra, Maria Marta & Urzua, Sergio & Bassi, Marina, 2023. "What makes a program good? Evidence from short-cycle higher education programs in five developing countries," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 169(C).
    3. Di Meglio, Gisela & Barge-Gil, Andrés & Camiña, Ester & Moreno, Lourdes, 2019. "Knocking on Employment´s Door: Internships and Job Attainment," MPRA Paper 95712, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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