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Direct linkHendrick, C. Emily; Maslowsky, Julie – Developmental Psychology, 2019
The children of teen mothers are at elevated risk for becoming teen parents themselves. The current study aimed to identify how levels of mothers' education were associated with risk of teenage childbearing for children of teen versus nonteen mothers. Through structural equation modeling, we tested whether children's environmental and personal…
Descriptors: Early Parenthood, Adolescents, Mothers, Educational Attainment
Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas S. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2010
The General Educational Development (GED) credential is issued on the basis of an eight hour subject-based test. The test claims to establish equivalence between dropouts and traditional high school graduates, opening the door to college and positions in the labor market. In 2008 alone, almost 500,000 dropouts passed the test, amounting to 12% of…
Descriptors: Credentials, Testing Programs, Dropouts, Labor Market
Abram, Marie J.; Cobb, Robert A. – 1981
A questionnaire was designed to survey Logan County (Kentucky) students who withdrew from school during the 1976-77 and 1977-78 school years. Of the 130 survey instruments circulated, 37 (28%) were returned. A comparison of six demographic variables, based on school records, revealed that the respondents and the original population were similar on…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Achievement Gains, Demography, Dropout Attitudes
Download full textMurnane, Richard J.; Willett, John B.; Tyler, John H. – 1999
Data on the sophomore cohort of the original High School and Beyond (HS&B) study were analyzed to determine the value of the General Educational Development (GED) credential versus that of the conventional high school diploma in explaining the earnings of 27-year-old males in the early 1990s. The study sample consisted of those 4,899 male…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Adult Education, Aptitude Tests, Comparative Analysis
