Who Benefits from a GED? Evidence for Females from High School and Beyond
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This paper examines the labor market value of the GED for females, questioning two implicit assumptions that have been employed in earlier studies. We show that providing access to work experience may be a critical mechanism through which education credentials impart labor market value and that the labor market value of the GED credential depends on the skills with which dropouts left school. Our basic finding is that among females who dropped out of high school with weak basic math skills, those with a GED have accumulated more work experience and have higher labor market earnings in their mid-20s than are observationally similar dropouts lacking the GED credential. J.E.L Classifications: I21 (Analysis of Education) and J24 (Human Capital Formation)
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