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Mate Selection Behavior of GED Recipients

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JOURNAL OF FAMILY ISSUES
卷 44, 期 6, 页码 1525-1546

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SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0192513X211059825

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educational assortative mating; intermarriage; GED; high school diploma

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The study suggests that GED degree is not socially equivalent to a traditional high school diploma, and the marital sorting patterns of GED recipients support this finding, particularly among racial/ethnic minorities.
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.

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