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Education, health and mortality : evidence from a social experiment

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Skills for the 21st century in Latin America and the Caribbean

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Labor-market returns to the GED using regression discontinuity analysis

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We evaluate the labor-market returns to General Educational Development (GED) certification using state administrative data. We develop a fuzzy regression discontinuity (FRD) method to account for the fact that GED test takers can repeatedly retake the test until they pass it. Our technique can...