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DOI10.3386/w16064
来源IDWorking Paper 16064
The GED
James J. Heckman; John Eric Humphries; Nicholas S. Mader
发表日期2010-06-03
出版年2010
语种英语
摘要The General Educational Development (GED) credential is issued on the basis of an eight hour subject-based test. The test claims to establish equivalence between dropouts and traditional high school graduates, opening the door to college and positions in the labor market. In 2008 alone, almost 500,000 dropouts passed the test, amounting to 12% of all high school credentials issued in that year. This chapter reviews the academic literature on the GED, which finds minimal value of the certificate in terms of labor market outcomes and that only a few individuals successfully use it as a path to obtain post-secondary credentials. Although the GED establishes cognitive equivalence on one measure of scholastic aptitude, recipients still face limited opportunity due to deficits in noncognitive skills such as persistence, motivation and reliability. The literature finds that the GED testing program distorts social statistics on high school completion rates, minority graduation gaps, and sources of wage growth. Recent work demonstrates that, through its availability and low cost, the GED also induces some students to drop out of school. The GED program is unique to the United States and Canada, but provides policy insight relevant to any nation's educational context.
主题Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand ; Labor Compensation
URLhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w16064
来源智库National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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James J. Heckman,John Eric Humphries,Nicholas S. Mader. The GED. 2010.
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