title: Cross-National Variations in Student Employment and Academic Performance: The Roles of National Context and International Law.
abstract: Most existing research indicates that working students perform more poorly than do full-time students on standardized achievement tests. However, we know there are wide international variations in this gap. This article shows that national and international contexts help to explain the gap in the academic performance between working and non-working middle-school students. We combined data from the 2003 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) eighth-grade assessment with the country specific information on socioeconomic and educational conditions, as well as the timing of each country's ratification of an international treaty regulating child labor. Our multilevel analyses show that, while student employment was generally negatively associated with academic performance, this negative association is smaller in countries that by 1995 had ratified the International Labour Organization's Convention No. 138 on child labor. These findings highlight the role of national and international policy in structuring the consequences of student employment for academic performance.
authors: Department of Education Policy Studies The Pennsylvania State University 302F Rackley Building University Park, PA 16802 szb14@psu.edu.
authors: Soo-Yong
authors: SY
authors: Byun
authors: Department of Education Policy Studies The Pennsylvania State University 300 Rackley Building University Park, PA 16802 abh5125@psu.edu.
authors: Adrienne
authors: A
authors: Henck
authors: Department of Education Policy Studies The Pennsylvania State University 400 Rackley Building University Park, PA 16802 dmp10@psu.edu.
authors: David
authors: D
authors: Post
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