Early exposure to foreign language training and students' educational trajectories

Maurizio Strazzeri, Enzo Brox, Chantal Oggenfuss and Stefan Wolter

No 195, Economics of Education Working Paper Series from University of Zurich, Department of Business Administration (IBW)

Abstract: We estimate the impact of a large curriculum reform in Switzerland that substantially increased the share of foreign language classes in compulsory school on students' subsequent educational choices in upper secondary school. Using detailed student register data and exploiting the staggered implementation of the curriculum reform, we find that exposure to more foreign language classes has only minor effects on educational trajectories of the overall student population. However, we find substantial effect heterogeneity: while the reform has no effect on the direct educational progression of low-track female or high-track students, it impedes low-track male students' transition to upper secondary education.

Keywords: Policy Evaluation; Goodman-Bacon Decomposition; Education Reform; Foreign Language Skills; Educational Choices; Occupational Choices (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I24 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 79 pages
Date: 2022-08
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