This paper examines New York City's Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP). SYEP provides jobs to youth ages 14–24, and due to high demand for summer jobs, allocates slots through a random lottery system. We match student‐level data from the SYEP program with educational records from the NYC Department of Education and use the random lottery to estimate the effects of SYEP participation on a number of academic outcomes, including test taking and performance. We find that SYEP participation has positive impacts on student academic outcomes, and these effects are particularly large for students who participate in SYEP multiple times.

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让夏天变得重要：青年就业对学习成绩的影响

本文研究了纽约市的夏季青年就业计划（SYEP）。SYEP为14至24岁的年轻人提供工作，由于对暑期工作的需求很高，因此通过随机彩票系统分配职位。我们将来自SYEP计划的学生水平数据与来自纽约市教育局的教育记录进行匹配，并使用随机彩票来评估SYEP参与对许多学术成果（包括考试和成绩）的影响。我们发现SYEP的参与对学生的学业成绩有积极的影响，而对于多次参加SYEP的学生而言，这些影响尤其巨大。