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ERIC Number: EJ1217616
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 18
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ISSN: ISSN-0964-5292
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College Internships, Tenure Gaps, and Student Outcomes: A Multiple-Treatment Matching Approach
Routon, P. Wesley; Walker, Jay K.
Education Economics, v27 n4 p383-400 2019
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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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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