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Figure 1GED Credentials Issued as a Percentage of Public and Private High School Graduates, USA
1960-2001
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Figure 2
The Fraction of High School Dropouts in the USA 1971 to 2000: Two Alternative Measures
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High school dropouts excluding the GEDs - CPS data
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(1) the Department of Education National Center for Education Statistics and (2) American Council on Education, General Educational Development Testing
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and (3) U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Current Population Survey, unpublished tabulations; and U.S. Department of Education, National
Center for Education Statistics, Dropout Rates in the United States.
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Figure 3
Share of GEDs Less Than 19 Years-Old Among All High School Credentials Issued, 1989-2001
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High School
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High School
Graduates
GED vs. HS
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GED vs. HS
Graduates
High School
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High School
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GED vs. HS
Dropouts
GED vs. HS
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High School
DropoutsGED
High School
Graduates
GED vs. HS
Dropouts
GED vs. HS
GraduatesPanel A. Males
Number of Observation 246 166 818 229 183 511 176 109 241
Number of Siblings 3.80 3.47 3.07 0.12 0.04 5.27 4.92 5.10 0.30 0.50 5.51 4.31 4.47 0.00 0.71
(2.30) (2.21) (1.94) (3.12) (2.92) (2.98) (3.16) (2.52) (2.80)
Mother's Education 10.32 10.92 11.55 0.01 0.00 9.92 10.63 10.49 0.00 0.14 7.13 8.01 7.46 0.05 0.28
(2.25) (2.19) (2.00) (2.21) (2.46) (2.23) (3.77) (3.28) (4.03)
Father's Education 9.97 10.85 11.41 0.00 0.03 9.44 9.99 9.95 0.02 0.67 7.12 8.37 8.20 0.00 0.87
(3.11) (2.71) (2.59) (2.87) (2.88) (2.81) (3.55) (3.83) (4.27)
Broken Home 0.37 0.38 0.18 0.91 0.00 0.61 0.49 0.47 0.02 0.61 0.45 0.44 0.32 0.82 0.02
(0.48) (0.49) (0.38) (0.49) (0.50) (0.50) (0.50) (0.50) (0.47)
Family Income 35457 41041 49675 0.01 0.00 23252 26728 27327 0.07 0.39 23833 29482 34740 0.05 0.02
(19977) (23098) (26263) (16942) (19154) (18025) (17149) (24142) (25141)
Southern Residence 0.39 0.37 0.23 0.73 0.00 0.56 0.51 0.63 0.32 0.01 0.27 0.31 0.27 0.42 0.47
(0.49) (0.49) (0.42) (0.50) (0.50) (0.48) (0.44) (0.47) (0.45)
Urban Residence 0.71 0.75 0.69 0.31 0.11 0.77 0.87 0.81 0.01 0.08 0.93 0.92 0.86 0.79 0.15
(0.46) (0.43) (0.46) (0.42) (0.34) (0.39) (0.26) (0.28) (0.34)
Sample of Means of Family Background in 1979
Table 1A
Mean
Black Hispanic
Wilcoxon Test
White
Mean Wilcoxon Test Wilcoxon TestMean
Notes: The Sample includes people who are enrolled. Rather than dropping observations without information on parents' education and family income in 1979, which would results in a loss of almost a quarter of our sample, we decided to
impute values for the missing data. We ran an OLS regression of the not missing values on the following variables: dummy for southern residence at age 14, dummy for urban residence at age 14, dummy for broken home status at age 14,
number of siblings, and year of birth dummies. Finally, we used the estimates from the first step to compute predicted values for the missing data.
High school dropout, GED recipient, and high school graduate correspond to the latest educational status that the respondents provided in the survey.
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High School
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High School
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GED vs. HS
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High School
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GED vs. HS
Dropouts
GED vs. HS
GraduatesPanel B. Females
Number of Observation 154 169 836 173 113 453 146 80 243
Number of Siblings 3.97 3.60 3.24 0.23 0.16 6.03 5.45 5.09 0.16 0.37 5.67 4.64 4.38 0.02 0.28
(2.60) (2.50) (1.96) (3.58) (3.15) (2.98) (3.23) (2.85) (2.98)
Mother's Education 9.90 10.50 11.19 0.01 0.00 9.13 10.06 10.13 0.01 0.70 6.46 7.39 8.13 0.04 0.12
(2.41) (2.58) (1.90) (2.85) (2.49) (2.38) (3.37) (3.24) (3.69)
Father's Education 10.07 10.66 11.16 0.01 0.02 8.89 9.48 9.61 0.15 0.39 6.22 7.81 8.07 0.01 0.51
(2.71) (2.69) (2.58) (3.12) (2.67) (2.85) (3.87) (4.23) (3.99)
Broken Home 0.46 0.40 0.19 0.24 0.00 0.62 0.59 0.51 0.67 0.10 0.40 0.45 0.29 0.44 0.01
(0.50) (0.49) (0.39) (0.49) (0.49) (0.50) (0.49) (0.50) (0.46)
Family Income 34927 36406 47634 0.40 0.00 19874 19754 24231 0.60 0.03 24355 25526 32338 0.61 0.01
(20810) (19782) (25019) (18321) (13187) (19102) (17060) (17401) (21285)
Sourtern Dummy 0.38 0.36 0.27 0.68 0.02 0.60 0.60 0.64 0.91 0.42 0.25 0.24 0.27 0.88 0.55
(0.49) (0.48) (0.44) (0.49) (0.49) (0.48) (0.43) (0.43) (0.45)
Urban Dummy 0.75 0.73 0.73 0.60 0.96 0.80 0.86 0.76 0.19 0.03 0.95 0.84 0.89 0.01 0.19
(0.43) (0.45) (0.44) (0.40) (0.35) (0.43) (0.23) (0.37) (0.31)
Mean
Notes: The Sample includes people who are enrolled. Rather than dropping observations without information on parents' education and family income in 1979, which would results in a loss of almost a quarter of our sample, we decided to
impute values for the missing data. We ran an OLS regression of the not missing values on the following variables: dummy for southern residence at age 14, dummy for urban residence at age 14, dummy for broken home status at age 14,
number of siblings, and year of birth dummies. Finally, we used the estimates from the first step to compute predicted values for the missing data.
High school dropout, GED recipient, and high school graduate correspond to the latest educational status that the respondents provided in the survey.
Prob > |z| Prob > |z| Prob > |z|
Sample of Means of Family Background in 1979
Table 1B
Mean
Black Hispanic
Wilcoxon Test
White
Mean Wilcoxon Test Wilcoxon Test
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High
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Panel A. White
Percentage of Teen mother 58.82 52.78 17.40
Age First Married 19.68 19.20 21.71
(4.78) (4.04) (4.38)
Child Ever Born 2.20 2.27 1.82
(1.35) (1.32) (1.26)
Panel B. Black
Percentage of Teen mother 68.42 76.07 41.28
Age First Married 22.26 22.08 23.41
(5.93) (5.92) (4.98)
Child Ever Born 3.02 2.90 2.03
(1.97) (1.50) (1.30)
Panel C. Hispanic
Percentage of Teen mother 55.26 56.31 26.42
Age First Married 19.97 20.39 21.50
(4.79) (5.20) (4.19)
Child Ever Born 3.13 2.44 2.10
(1.75) (1.42) (1.32)
Table 2
Behavior Table, Females from NLSY79
Notes. Teen mother is defined as woman whose first child was born
when she was younger than twenty years old.
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3.3 Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Ability
• GEDs and H.S. graduates have similar measured cogni-tive ability.
• GEDs and dropouts have similar measured non-cogntiveability.
• Both cognitive and non-cognitive skills are important ineducational choices and behavior Heckman, Stixrud, andUrzua (2004)
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Dropouts, GED holders and high school graduates without post secondary education. AFQT is a subset of 4 out of 10 ASVAB tests used by the military forenlistment screening and job assignment. It is the summed score from the word knowledge, paragraph comprehension, mathematics knowledge, and arithmetic reasoning ASVAB tests.
Figure 4Density of NLSY AFQT Scores by Race and Gender
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Education categories are dropouts, High School Graduates and GED holders without post secondary schooling.Test scores are the average over the Prose, Document, and Quantitative examinations administered to all NALS respondents. This is a measure of basic literacy and computational skills. They have been standardized to mean zero and variance one in the population.
Figure 5Density of NALS Test Scores by Race for the Native Born
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F4PNLWT, the NELS panel weight for 2000 data, is used to obtain a representative sample of the US populationbased on those individuals who were surveyed in 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, and 2000. Scores are measured in1988, when respondents are in 8th grade.
Males, NELS 1988 2000
Figure 6: Noncognitive g Mean Scores by Education
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Females, NELS 1988 2000
Figure 7: Noncognitive g Mean Scores by Education
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4 Estimated Direct Returns to the
GED
• Low direct economic returns to exam certification: Cameronand Heckman (1993).
• Large body of subsequent work confirms that GED recip-ients and high school graduates are not equivalent.Boesel,Alsalam, and Smith (1998)
• Question is now what benefits the GED program confersto participants.
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Advocates of the GED testing program raised some potentiallyvalid criticisms of the Cameron and Heckman analysis fol-lowing its publication (Murnane, Willett, and Boudett, 1999;Boudett, 2000; Jaeger and Clark, 2002).
1. First, their research only considered labor market out-comes at ages 25 and 28. If GED certification opensup access to occupations that are closed to high schooldropouts then the e ect of certification may not manifestitself until later in the life cycle.
2. A second concern was the small sample sizes available inthe NLSY data.
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1. The CPS contains no measure of ability. Cameron andHeckman found that the GED program is selective be-cause higher ability dropouts obtain GED certification.
2. As found by Hirsch and Schumacher (2004) in the contextof estimating union-nonunion wage di erentials, “matchbias” can result from the CPS method of imputing miss-ing wages. We find that the estimated returns to GEDcertification are substantially upward biased because GEDrespondents who either refuse or fail to report their wageinformation are frequently assigned (matched to) the wagesof traditional high school graduates.
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5.2 CPS Imputation Strategy
“Hot deck” imputation method assigns the wages of respon-dents to non-respondents based on a limited set of demographic,education and occupational characteristics. Currently, the CPSmatches non-respondents to respondents in the monthly databased on the following categories: gender (2), race (2), age (6),occupation (13), hours worked (8), education (3), and tips andovertime receipt (2). A common practice among researchersis to treat allocated values as observed when using CPS sur-vey data. Angrist and Krueger (1999) claim that CPS wageallocation is empirically unimportant. This paper shows thatCPS allocation methods and the resulting match bias are offirst order economic importance.
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“Match bias”, (Hirsch and Schumacher, 2004), arises from thelimited number of categories used to impute non-respondentwages.The matching of wage non-respondents to wage respondents isbased on only three levels of educational attainment:
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Estimated returns for those who graduate high school anddo not attend college tend to exhibit upward bias since non-respondents will frequently be matched to those who completesome college.
On the other hand, estimated returns for those who completeabove a Bachelors degree should be biased downward as a resultof non-respondents being assigned Bollinger and Hirsch (2005)and Hirsch and Schumacher (2004) present a more detaileddiscussion of the CPS hot deck procedure.
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8 GED Returns Among Immigrants
Jaeger and Clark (2002) argue that the GED has an evengreater signaling e ect for immigrants than for the native born.
Their study does not control for either the cognitive di erencesbetween education groups or the amount of education GEDrecipients obtained in their home countries.
These vast di erences in basic skills among foreign born ed-ucational groups call into question the comparability of wagereturns between them, since the types of jobs available to themwill be very di erent as well.
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Figure 13Density of NALS Test Scores for the Foreign Born
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9 Why GED Program Expanded
9.1 Demand for Schooling
• Returns to college education have increased since the late1970’s.Autor and Katz (1999)
• GED credentials satisfy buraucratic requirements for ad-mission at many post-secondary institutions.
• Essentially a lottery; the cost is low but the chance ofsuccess is also low.
66
College/HS All College/HS 5 Years Exp GEDs Planning Further Study
Source. Wage differentials from Autor and Katz (1999), Figure 5-b. American Council on Education, GED Testing Service Statistical Reports.
Figure 14
College/HS Log Wage Differential and GED Test Takers Planning Further Study.
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Figure 15
GED Credentials by Reason for Obtaining Credential, 1960-2001
0
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200,000
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1962
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1992
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Source: American Council on Education, GED Testing Service Statistical Reports, various years.
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Figure 16
Number of Recipients of Work-Study, SEOG, Pell Grant, and Perkins Loan, 1973-1999
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Source: Status Report on the Pell Grant Program,2000; Federal Campus-Based Programs Data Book 1998 and 1999, 2000, 2001.
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Figure 17Ratio of Pell Grant, SEOG, Perkins Loan, and Work-Study Expenditures to the U.S. 18-24
Year-Old Population, 1973-1999
0
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Year
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Source: “2000 Status Report on the Pell Grant Program”, Federal Campus-Based Programs Data Book 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, U.S. Census Bureau
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Figure 18Number of Pell Grants and GED Credentials Issued, 1973-1999
200,000
300,000
400,000
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4,200,000
GED Credentials Pell Grants
Sources: “2000 Status Report on the Pell Grant Program” from the American Council on Education Center for Policy Analysis and the GED Statistical Reports
72
Figure 19Total Number of GED Credentials Issued and the Number Produced by the Adult Basic
Education Program, 1972-1986(in thousands)
0
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Source: Council on Adult Education(various years); GED Testing Service (1990)
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Figure 20Number of Inmates in State and Federal Prisons, 1940-1999
0
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Year
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Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau. Based on U.S. Census Bureau estimated resident population, as of December 31. Includes all persons under
jurisdiction of federal and state authorities rather than those in the custody of such authorities. Represents inmates sentenced to maximum term of more than a year.
75
State
Year coverage State prisons Federal prisons Total
1994 45.4 7.8 1.4 9.2
1995 57.8 7.7 1.2 8.9
1996 62.8 7.8 1.2 8.9
1997 58.0 9.4 1.4 10.8
1998 69.9 9.5 1.4 10.9
1999 69.4 9.2 1.5 10.7
2000 73.9 9.5 1.6 11.1
Table 12
GED Credentials Issued
Sources: Department of Corrections: Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida,
Illinois, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and
Tennessee. State's GED Offices: Connecticut, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri,
New Hampshire, Oregon, Texas, South Carolina. Data for federal prison from
GED Testing Service "Who took the GED?" various years. See appendix for
data for each state considered inthe estimation.
Notes: State coverage represents the total number of GED credentials issued in
those states with information available as a percentage of total GED credentials
issued in the US. Total percentage of GED credentials issued in state prisons
represent credentials issued in correctional institutions of those states that have
prison information for a given year as a percentage of total GED credentials
issued in those states. The percentage of GED credentials issued in federal
prisons is calculated on total credentials issued in the US (including federal
prisons). Credentials issued in insular areas, freely associated states, Canada,
overseas locations and military bases are excluded.
of Total Credentials Issued
in Correctional Institutions as a Percentage
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Figure 21Number of Inmates in State and Federal Prisons per 100,000 US Population, 1940-1999
0
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jurisdiction of federal and state authorities rather than those in the custody of such authorities. Represents inmates sentenced to maximum term of more than a year.
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Figure 22Legal and Illegal Immigration into the United States, 1960-1999
0
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Immigrant Population Residing in the United States: 1990-2000”, 2001 Statistical Yearbook of the Immigration and Naturalization Service
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Figure 23Percentage of GEDs Less Than 19 Years-Old to All Regular Diplomas in States That Do
and Do Not Require Passing an Exam for Graduation, 1990-2001
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9
10
11
12
13
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Year
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Exam Required No Exam RequiredSource: CCD data and GED Statistical Reports
Note: High stakes states are Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. Low stakes states are Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa,
Kansas, Maine, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island,
South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming
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Figure 24Percentage of GEDs Less Than 19 Years-Old to All Regular Diplomas in Florida,
1989-2001
5
7
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11
13
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17
19
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23
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Year
Per
cen
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Source: CCD data and GED Statistical Reports
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exam
Florida toughens GED requirements for
1998, 1999, and 2000
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Figure 25Percentage of GEDs Less Than 19 Years-Old to All Regular Diplomas in Alabama,
1989-2001
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001
Year
Per
cen
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Source: CCD data and GED Statistical Reports
New version of high school exit exam introduced
Reading and language subject tests introduced
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Figure 26Percentage of GEDs Less Than 19 Years-Old to All Regular Diplomas in Texas,
1989-2001
5
7
9
11
13
15
17
1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001
Year
Per
cen
t
Source: CCD data and GED Statistical Reports
New version(TAAS) of high
school exit exam introduced
Texas toughens its GED score requirements.
From 1996 to 1997, the percentage who met the
score requirement fell by 11 percent
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Figure 17Percentage of GEDs Less Than 19 Years-Old to All Regular Diplomas in Nevada,
1991-2001
5
7
9
11
13
15
17
19
21
1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001
Year
Per
cen
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Source: CCD data and GED Statistical Reports
New version of high school exit exam introduced
Nevada toughens GED requirements
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Figure 28Percentage of GEDs Less Than 19 Years-Old to All Regular Diplomas in Indiana, 1989-
2001
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001
Year
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Source: CCD data and GED Statistical Reports
*Indiana's first high school exit
exam introduced
*Indiana toughens GED
requirements
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AFQT -0.397 0.105 0.328 0.455 1.007
(0.796) (0.780) (0.765) (0.692) (0.407)
Family Income 15,601.3 17,857.0 14,889.0 16,695.6 19,225.0
(9,397) (11,254) (10,380) (13,533) (9,846)
Father's Highest Grade Completed 10.338 10.229 10.857 12.875 12.818
(3.027) (3.404) (3.607) (2.588) (2.822)
Mother's Highest Grade Completed 10.562 10.140 11.154 11.200 12.167
(2.519) (2.286) (2.498) (2.821) (1.030)
AFQT -0.379 -0.287 0.255 0.038 0.799
(0.792) (0.642) (0.753) (0.628) (0.433)
Family Income 13,892.6 13,032.7 15,919.6 13,871.6 14,791.3
(8,474) (7,230) (10,862) (9,356) (13,611)
Father's Highest Grade Completed 9.761 10.772 11.100 11.071 12.000
(3.310) (2.872) (3.436) (4.009) (1.265)
Mother's Highest Grade Completed 9.987 10.797 11.207 10.750 11.375
(2.844) (2.211) (3.183) (3.975) (1.506)
A. Males
NLSY 79, Random Sample Males
Table A4(a). Background Characteristics of Postsecondary GED Recipients
Did not enroll Less than 1 yearMore than 1 year,
no degree2 year degree 4 year degree
B. Females
Notes: AFQT is age-adjusted and normalized to a mean of zero and a variance of one. Missing values are imputed for family income, father's
highest grade completed, and mother's highest grade completed.
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AFQT -0.051 0.408 0.562 0.653 1.219
(0.831) (0.740) (0.774) (0.748) (0.550)
Family Income 18,852.2 21,341.9 20,640.7 21,742.4 26,242.9
(10,510) (12,010) (12,142) (12,532) (16,117)
Father's Highest Grade Completed 10.811 11.971 12.401 12.702 14.193
(2.806) (2.973) (3.316) (3.164) (3.392)
Mother's Highest Grade Completed 10.986 11.767 11.989 12.084 13.231
(2.323) (2.459) (2.365) (2.154) (2.594)
AFQT -0.103 0.218 0.322 0.565 1.079
(0.759) (0.738) (0.778) (0.724) (0.580)
Family Income 18,365.6 18,869.2 18,685.8 19,854.6 25,373.0
(10,516) (11,249) (11,456) (12,105) (14,564)
Father's Highest Grade Completed 10.539 11.409 11.924 11.979 13.964
(2.863) (2.993) (3.239) (3.259) (3.450)
Mother's Highest Grade Completed 10.677 11.201 11.879 11.913 13.161
(2.307) (2.375) (2.530) (2.441) (2.491)
A. Males
B. Females
Notes: AFQT is age-adjusted and normalized to a mean of zero and a variance of one. Missing values are imputed for family income, father's
highest grade completed, and mother's highest grade completed.
NLSY 79, Random Sample Males
Did not enroll Less than 1 yearMore than 1 year,
no degree2 year degree 4 year degree
Table A4(b). Background Characteristics of Postsecondary High-School Graduates
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White Black Hispanic White Black Hispanic
Observations 625 223 51 29 243 51 28
Did not enroll 57.12 58.74 72.55 62.07 51.03 66.67 46.43
(49.53) (49.34) (45.07) (49.38) (50.09) (47.61) (50.79)
Enrolled 42.88 41.26 27.45 37.93 48.97 33.33 53.57
(49.53) (49.34) (45.07) (49.38) (50.09) (47.61) (50.79)
Less than 1 year 19.20 17.49 17.65 27.59 19.34 21.57 21.43
(39.42) (38.07) (38.50) (45.49) (39.58) (41.54) (41.79)
More than 1 year, no degree 16.00 14.80 7.84 6.90 20.16 7.84 28.57
(36.69) (35.59) (27.15) (25.79) (40.21) (27.15) (46.00)
2 year degree 4.48 3.59 1.96 3.45 6.17 3.92 3.57
(20.70) (18.64) (14.00) (18.57) (24.12) (19.60) (18.90)
4 year degree 3.20 5.38 0.00 0.00 3.29 0.00 0.00
(17.61) (22.62) (0.00) (0.00) (17.88)
Table A5(a). Final Postsecondary Outcomes of GED RecipientsNLSY 79, Random Sample
Males FemalesOverall
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Observations 4704 1907 221 127 2020 286 143
Did not enroll 30.97 32.09 44.80 26.77 29.06 27.97 31.47
(46.24) (46.70) (49.84) (44.45) (45.41) (44.96) (46.60)
Enrolled 69.03 67.91 55.20 73.23 70.94 72.03 68.53
(46.24) (46.70) (49.84) (44.45) (45.41) (44.96) (46.60)
Less than 1 year 12.54 11.59 11.76 17.32 13.12 12.24 14.69
(33.12) (32.02) (32.29) (37.99) (33.77) (32.83) (35.52)
More than 1 year, no degree 17.11 15.52 18.55 28.35 15.69 30.77 18.88
(37.67) (36.22) (38.96) (45.25) (36.38) (46.23) (39.27)
2 year degree 9.03 7.45 6.79 4.72 10.20 12.24 14.69
(28.67) (26.26) (25.21) (21.30) (30.27) (32.83) (35.52)
4 year degree 30.34 33.35 18.10 22.83 31.93 16.78 20.28
(45.98) (47.16) (38.59) (42.14) (46.63) (37.44) (40.35)
Table A5(b). Final Postsecondary Outcomes of High-School GraduatesNLSY 79, Random Sample
OverallMales Females
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