“…Compared to nonemployed youth or those working moderate hours (i.e., 20 or fewer hours per week), youth who work intensively spend less time on homework, miss more classes, participate in fewer extracurricular activities, and give less effort to school (Carr, Wright, & Brody, ; D'Amico, ; Greenberger & Steinberg, ; Kalenkoski & Pabilonia, ; Lee & Staff, ; Marsh, ; Marsh & Kleitman, ; McNeal, ; Monahan, Lee, & Steinberg, ; Mortimer, ; Osgood, ; Schoenhals, Tienda, & Schneider, ; Staff, Schulenberg, & Bachman, ; Warren & Lee, ). Importantly, unlike intensive work, moderate hours of youth work have not been consistently linked to negative school outcomes, and some research shows that moderate workers report higher grade point averages and test scores than nonemployed youth, as well as more involvement in school (Staff, et al., ; D'Amico, ; Mortimer & Johnson, ; Warren et al., ).…”