Tyler, John H.; Murnane, Richard J.; Willett, John B. - 2021
certification for school dropouts in the United States. Despite the widespread use of the GED, however, bias due to self …-selection has limited our knowledge about the effects of the credential on the labor market outcomes of dropouts. This paper uses a … estimates of the impact of the GED on the earnings of young dropouts. To exploit the natural experiments, we use a unique merged …