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Source: Penn State Workforce Education and Development Initiative
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1. Baker, Rose M.
Passmore, David L.
Failure to Earn a High School Diploma: Correlates and Consequences for Central Pennsylvania
Report, Penn State Workforce Education and Development Initiative, August 2008
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: Penn State Workforce Education and Development Initiative
Keyword(s): Dropouts; Employment; GED/General Educational Diploma/General Equivalency Degree/General Educational Development; High School Dropouts; Labor Force Participation; State-Level Data/Policy; Wages

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The purpose of the research described in this report was to estimate the personal compensation foregone as a consequence of the failure of these 681 dropouts in 2005–2006 to leave high school with a diploma. To provide this estimate, from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97) (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2007a) was analyzed to calculate, using ordinary least squares regression, the average difference, ceteris paribus, between the personal compensation of dropouts and graduates at the national level. Then, the average personal compensation difference is multiplied by the number of the central Pennsylvania dropouts working, which provides an estimate of the aggregate personal compensation costs of failure to earn a high school diploma for central Pennsylvania.
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Baker, Rose M. and David L. Passmore. "Failure to Earn a High School Diploma: Correlates and Consequences for Central Pennsylvania." Report, Penn State Workforce Education and Development Initiative, August 2008.