Engineering internships and the development of human capital
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- In spite of the attention that in-work study experience programs have generated among students, educators and policy makers, there is a limited number of studies that quantify the benefits of such programs, and none of the existing studies use a sample representative of the U.S. This paper aims to assess the effects that the participation of engineering students in internships or cooperative education programs has on the initial wages and time until first job after graduation. I analyze the Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (BPS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) of the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences. Having tentatively found that there is a positive effect on initial wages, I proceed to discuss the implications of this finding for students, higher education institutions, employers and education policy makers.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Date created | July 2011 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Lobato, Leonardo |
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Subjects
| Subject | engineering |
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| Subject | higher education |
| Subject | internships |
| Subject | cooperative education programs |
| Subject | Stanford Graduate School of Education International Comparative Education |
| Genre | Thesis |
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| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/hf005nn1462 |
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Graduate School of Education International Comparative Education Master's Monographs
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