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Chapter 9. The GED
Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas S. - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 3, (pp. 423-483). 2011
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 …
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The GED
Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas S. - 2010
insight relevant to any nation's educational context. -- Returns to education ; GED ; dropouts ; graduation rate …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 …
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The GED
Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568301
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The GED
Heckman, James J. - 2010
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141745
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Noncognitive skills, school achievements and educational dropout
Coneus, Katja; Gernandt, Johannes; Saam, Marianne - 2010 - Rev. version
We analyse the determinants of dropout from secondary and vocational education in Germany using data from the Socio-Economic Panel from 2000 to 2007. In addition to the role of classical variables like family background and school achievements, we examine the effect of noncognitive skills. Both,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826484
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Noncognitive skills, school achievements and educational dropout
Coneus, Katja; Gernandt, Johannes; Saam, Marianne - 2009
We analyse the determinants of dropout from secondary and vocational education in Germany using data from the Socio-Economic Panel from 2000 to 2007. In addition to the role of classical variables like family background and school achievements, we examine the effect of noncognitive skills. Both,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011634978
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Natives, the foreign-born and high school equivalents : new evidence on the returns to the GED
Clark, Melissa A.; Jaeger, David A. - 2002
, among whom GED recipients earn less than high school graduates but significantly more than dropouts. The effects for natives …In this paper we explore the labor market returns to the General Education Development exam, or GED. Using new data … from the Current Population Survey, we examine how the return to the GED varies between U.S. natives and the foreign …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411097
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The effects of high school peers' gender on college major, college performance and income
Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2016
Using an originally constructed dataset that follows 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to the labor market, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic performance and their labor market income. We exploit the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515310
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The Effects of High School Peers' Gender on College Major, College Performance and Income
Anelli, Massimo - 2016
Using an originally constructed dataset that follows 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to the labor market, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic performance and their labor market income. We exploit the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984501
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The effects of school quality in the origin on the payoff to schooling for immigrants
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2010
The payoff to schooling among the foreign born in the US is only around one-half of the payoff for the native born. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The paper uses the Over-education/ Required...
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