The General Educational Development (GED) credential has become the primary 'second chance' route to high school certification for school dropouts in the United States. Despite the widespread use of the GED, however, bias due to self-selection has limited our knowledge about the effects of the credential on the labor market outcomes of dropouts. This paper uses a series of natural experiments created by interstate variation in GED passing standards to reduce self-selection bias in estimates of the impact of the GED on the earnings of young dropouts. To exploit the natural experiments, we use a unique merged data set containing the GED test scores and Social Security earnings of a sample of 16-21 year-old dropouts who attempted the GED in 19...
We exploit an exogenous increase in General Educational Development (GED) testing requirements to d...
We evaluate the educational returns to General Educational Development (GED) certification using sta...
Using three sources of data, this paper examines the direct economic return to GED certification for...
In this paper, we exploit an exogenous change in the passing standard required to obtain a General E...
The General Educational Development (GED) credential is issued on the basis of an eight-hour subject...
This paper tests the labor market signaling hypothesis for the General Educational Development (GED)...
This paper uses longitudinal data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to examine whether ...
Honors (Bachelor's)EconomicsUniversity of Michiganhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/98...
In this paper, we evaluate the educational returns to General Educational Development (GED) certific...
Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) data from 1978, Cameron and Heckman found tha...
We evaluate the educational returns to General Educational Development (GED) certification using sta...
The author uses a unique data set constructed from Florida General Education Development certificate...
We evaluate returns to General Educational Development (GED) certification for high school dropouts ...
We use data from the Texas Schools Microdata Panel (TSMP) to examine the extent to which dropouts us...
We evaluate returns to General Educational Development (GED) certification for high school dropouts ...
We exploit an exogenous increase in General Educational Development (GED) testing requirements to d...
We evaluate the educational returns to General Educational Development (GED) certification using sta...
Using three sources of data, this paper examines the direct economic return to GED certification for...
In this paper, we exploit an exogenous change in the passing standard required to obtain a General E...
The General Educational Development (GED) credential is issued on the basis of an eight-hour subject...
This paper tests the labor market signaling hypothesis for the General Educational Development (GED)...
This paper uses longitudinal data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to examine whether ...
Honors (Bachelor's)EconomicsUniversity of Michiganhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/98...
In this paper, we evaluate the educational returns to General Educational Development (GED) certific...
Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) data from 1978, Cameron and Heckman found tha...
We evaluate the educational returns to General Educational Development (GED) certification using sta...
The author uses a unique data set constructed from Florida General Education Development certificate...
We evaluate returns to General Educational Development (GED) certification for high school dropouts ...
We use data from the Texas Schools Microdata Panel (TSMP) to examine the extent to which dropouts us...
We evaluate returns to General Educational Development (GED) certification for high school dropouts ...
We exploit an exogenous increase in General Educational Development (GED) testing requirements to d...
We evaluate the educational returns to General Educational Development (GED) certification using sta...
Using three sources of data, this paper examines the direct economic return to GED certification for...