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I present a dynamic structural model of individualchoice regarding high school education curricula, post-secondaryeducation attainment, and early labor market opportunities. Iestimate the model to investigate the returns to education fromdifferent types of U.S. high school curricula, with a particularfocus on career and technical education (CTE) for non-college boundstudents. I estimate the model using panel data on students’ highschool course selection and labor market outcomes from theEducation Longitudinal Study of 2002, and I account for high schoolcurriculum self-selection by including instruments in the model forhigh school CTE and academic opportunities along with local labormarket controls. The estimates suggest that, relative to generaleducation courses, trade CTE courses improve a non-college boundstudent’s later labor market wages and chance of being employed ina skilled occupation, while business CTE courses improve wages inlow-wage / high-non-pecuniary utility occupations. In addition, theestimates suggest that increased CTE opportunities decrease anon-college bound student’s propensity to drop out of high schoolbut also that CTE courses decrease a high school graduate’slikelihood to pursue a post-secondary education degree. Policysimulations suggest that incorporating vocational certificationinto high school CTE curricula would cause more students to takeCTE courses and improve their labor market outcomes and thatinstituting a German-style high school tracking system in theUnited States would improve the education and labor market outcomesof high school graduates at the expense of their non-pecuniaryutility in high school. Policy simulations also suggest thatproviding free tuition to community college would cause morestudents to take general education courses in high school, increasegraduation from community colleges, slightly increase graduationfrom four-year colleges and universities, and slightly increaseaverage wages in the population.

The Effects of High School Career and Technical Education for Non-College Bound Students