Teachers' versus parental choice and the tracking distribution of students: a natural experiment

Marlies Kornfeld and Carsten Ochsen

Applied Economics, 2015, vol. 47, issue 60, 6529-6542

Abstract: This article studies the secondary school track choice and considers to what extent parents' and teachers' assessment of students diverge. We take advantage of a reform in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) in 2006. The reform replaced parents' choice about their children's secondary school type by a binding teacher recommendation. Our data comprise class-level information on all public primary schools in the state. We find that teachers tend to recommend higher school types than parents. However, more precise analysis shows that this effect can be limited to districts with above average proportion of immigrants.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2015.1080808

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