Hi Vikkee and Melinda:

At the risk of repeating a resource that I know is probably in many of the responses, I would suggest your student start with a paper by John Tyler called:  "What Do We Know About the Economic Benefits of the GED:  A Review of Recent Research."  Along with being a very well written paper, it does review the little bit of published research on who goes on to postsecondary education, at least the information available as of 2003:

http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Education/resources/what_do_we_know.pdf

Dr. Tyler has additional papers that might make a good follow-up for more recent research on the topic:

http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Education/personnel.php?who=jhtyler

Good luck to your student.  It is a interesting and important topic.









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