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Why Choose Career Technical Education? Disentangling Student Preferences from Program Availability / Brian A. Jacob, Michael D. Ricks.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jacob, Brian A.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w31756.
- NBER working paper series no. w31756
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2023.
- Summary:
- This paper presents the first evidence of how students make career technical education (CTE) course-taking decisions. Among the universe of Michigan high-schoolers we find large disparities in CTE access and participation by gender, race, and income. We decompose participation gaps between supply (access) and demand (preferences) with a simple discrete choice model. We find that student preferences for CTE content drive participation gaps by gender, inequities in access drive gaps by income, and school-level supply and demand factors combine to create the gaps by race. Policy simulations highlight the importance of accessible CTE delivery models within comprehensive high schools.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- October 2023.
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