The Effects of Delayed Tracking: Evidence from German States

Simon Lange and Marten von Werder

No 163, Courant Research Centre: Poverty, Equity and Growth - Discussion Papers from Courant Research Centre PEG

Abstract: Germany's education system stands out among OECD countries for early tracking: students are tracked into different secondary school types at the age of ten in most German states. In this paper we estimate the effects on educational outcomes of a reform that delayed tracking by two years. While our findings suggest that the reform had no effect on educational outcomes on average, we find a positive effect on male students with uneducated parents and a negative effect on males with educated parents. The reform thus increased equality of opportunity among males, yet not among females. We argue that the gendered pattern is best explained by developmental differences between boys and girls at the relevant age.

Keywords: tracking; educational institutions; intergenerational mobility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I24 I28 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-12-19
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