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Title: Mate Selection Behavior of GED Recipients

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2022

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ISSN: 0192-513X

DOI: 10.1177/0192513X211059825

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Abstract: The General Educational Development (GED) degree is designed to be a credential equivalent to the high school diploma. However, growing evidence indicates that GED recipients have worse outcomes than high school graduates. Such findings raise the question: is the GED socially equivalent to the high school diploma? Although educational assortative mating patterns have long been used as a barometer of the social distance across educational groups, there has not been a study that has addressed this question by examining the marital sorting patterns of GED recipients. Using log-linear models, our study shows that the odds of intermarriage between GED recipients and high school graduates resemble those between GED recipients and those without a secondary degree. Racial/ethnic minorities had greater difficulty crossing the GED/high school graduate boundary when they married. Our findings detract from the purported view that the GED degree is equivalent to a traditional high school diploma.

Url: https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X211059825

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Authors: Choi, Kate H.; Wagner, Brandon G.

Periodical (Full): Journal of Family Issues

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Pages: 0192513X2110598

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Family and Marriage

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