The Effects of Career and Technical Education: Evidence from the Connecticut Technical High School System
利用断点回归发现，康涅狄格州技术高中使男生高中毕业率提高10个百分点、大学入学时间减少半个学期，且平均季度收入高出32%，但对女生无显著影响。
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.