Article 2021

Effects of Apprenticeship on the Short-Term Educational Outcomes of Vocational High-School Students

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De-Amesti, José
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Claro, Susana
Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness
Journal · Vol. 14 · Issue 3 · pp. 598-616
Abstract

This study estimates the extent to which apprenticeship affects the academic trajectories of vocational high-school students. Previous research has shown that apprenticeship-based high schools (or dual vocational education) increase employment outcomes compared to school-based-only vocational education. Employing a propensity score matching design, we show that apprenticeship’s advantages do not occur at the expense of academic outcomes: apprentices are 0.5 percentage points more likely to graduate on time (p = 0.068) and 3.3 percentage points more likely to access higher education (p = 0.000) than their non-apprentice counterparts. In portraying apprenticeship as a strategy that benefits academic outcomes, this article highlights the importance of how vocational education systems are implemented. © 2021 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

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Escuela de Gobierno, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, RM, Chile
Funding & Acknowledgements
Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo, ANID
Grant: NCS17_015
Funded by ANID–Millennium Science Initiative Program–Code: NCS17_015. We thank Paola Bordon for her helpful comments; Fundación Chile Dual for their suggestions, and the Chilean Ministry of Education (Mineduc) for providing the data.
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