Tracking and the Intergenerational Transmission of Education: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Simon Lange and Marten von Werder

No 880, SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research from DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)

Abstract: Proponents of tracking argue that the creation of more homogeneous classes increases effciency while opponents point out that tracking aggravates initial differences between students. We estimate the effects on the intergenerational transmission of education of a reform that delayed tracking by two years in one of Germany's federal states. While the reform had no effect on educational outcomes on average, it increased educational attainment among individuals with uneducated parents and decreased attainment among individuals with educated parents. The effect is driven entirely by changes in the gradient for males and to a large extent by an effect on the likelihood to complete the academic secondary track.

Keywords: tracking; educational institutions; educational inequality; equality of opportunity; intergenerational mobility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I24 I28 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 45 p.
Date: 2016
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Journal Article: Tracking and the intergenerational transmission of education: Evidence from a natural experiment (2017)
Working Paper: Tracking and the Intergenerational Transmission of Education: Evidence from a Natural Experiment (2016)
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