Heckman, James J.; LaFontaine, Paul A.; Rodríguez, Pedro L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
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...
