【Job Talk】The Long Shadow of School Closures: Impacts on Students' Educational and Labor Market Outcomes
2025/03/04
研討會日期 : 2025-03-04
時間 : 10:30
主講人 : Mr. Jeonghyeok Kim
地點 : Conference Room B110
主持人 : Professor Yating Chuang
演講者簡介 : Mr. Kim is expected to receive his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Houston in 2025. His research fields are Labor Economics, Economics of Education, and Public Economics. He is applying for a position of the Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica now.
演講摘要 : Each year, about a thousand public schools in the US close, displacing hundreds of thousands of students. I examine the impact of public-school closures on displaced students using linked schooling and labor market data from Texas. I implement difference-in-differences strategies using the within-school across-time/cohort variation in student exposure to school closure. I find that school closures decreased test scores, increased absenteeism, and led to more disciplinary actions. Furthermore, I find that school closures decreased high school completion, college attainment, employment, and earnings at ages 25-27. These impacts are larger for secondary students, Hispanic students, and those from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.
