Employment, Motherhood, and School Continuation Decisions of Young White, Black, and Hispanic Women
用动态离散选择模型分析美国年轻女性早期就业与学业延续的关系，发现工作强度增加会提高辍学率，这解释了西班牙裔女性高中辍学率高和黑人女性大学提前退学的现象，并指出青年就业可能导致早期辍学者长期工资停滞，加剧种族和民族不平等。
We examine the empirical relationship between early employment activity and school continuation decisions for young American women using a dynamic, sequential discrete-choice framework that estimates schooling, labor supply, and birth decisions jointly, controlling for unobserved heterogeneity and the endogeneity of these life cycle decisions. That the rate of school withdrawal increases as work intensity rises helps explain the higher departure rates of Hispanic girls from secondary school and the premature departure of young black women from college. The disturbing implication is that youth employment induces long-run wage stagnation for early school leavers and potentially increases race and ethnic inequities.