Taking the Easy Way Out: How the GED Testing Program Induces Students to Drop Out. NBER Working Paper No. 14044

Autor/inn/en	Heckman, James J.; LaFontaine, Paul A.; Rodriguez, Pedro L.
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA.
Titel	Taking the Easy Way Out: How the GED Testing Program Induces Students to Drop Out. NBER Working Paper No. 14044
Quelle	(2008) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Testing Programs; Dropout Rate; Dropouts; High School Equivalency Programs; Academic Persistence; Effect Size; Minority Groups; Age Differences; High School Students; Difficulty Level; California; General Educational Development Tests + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Drop-out; Drop-outs; Dropout; Early leavers; Schulversagen; Ethnische Minderheit; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Schwierigkeitsgrad; Kalifornien
Abstract	We exploit an exogenous increase in General Educational Development (GED) testing requirements to determine whether raising the difficulty of the test causes students to finish high school rather than drop out and GED certify. We find that a six point decrease in GED pass rates induces a 1.3 point decline in overall dropout rates. The effect size is also much larger for older students and minorities. Finally, a natural experiment based on the late introduction of the GED in California reveals, that adopting the program increased the dropout rate by 3 points more relative to other states during the mid-1970s. (As Provided).
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