Additional Career Assistance and Educational Outcomes for Students in Lower Track Secondary Schools

Bernd Fitzenberger and Stefanie Stefanie Licklederer ()
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Stefanie Stefanie Licklederer: University of Freiburg

No 132, Economics of Education Working Paper Series from University of Zurich, Department of Business Administration (IBW)

Abstract: Based on local policy variation, this paper estimates the causal effect of additional career assistance on educational outcomes for students in Lower Track Secondary Schools in Germany. We find mostly insignificant effects of the treatment on average outcomes, which mask quite heterogeneous effects. For those students, who are taking extra coursework to continue education, the grade point average is unaffected and the likelihood of completing a Middle Track Secondary School degree falls. In contrast, educational outcomes improve for students who do not take extra coursework. Hence, the treatment causes a reversal of educational plans after graduation.

Keywords: lower track secondary schools; career guidance; educational upgrading (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 46 pages
Date: 2017-07
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