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Publication Date: 2019
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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.
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Outcomes of Education, Academic Persistence, Student Satisfaction, Goal Orientation, Grade Point Average, Undergraduate Students, Skill Development, Career Choice, Altruism, Graduate Study, Bachelors Degrees, Teamwork, Interpersonal Competence, Problem Solving, Majors (Students), Intellectual Disciplines, Student Participation, Stopouts
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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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