The Distributional Effects of Early School Stratification Non-Parametric Evidence from Germany

Daniel Steinberg Marcus Roller
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Marcus Roller and Daniel Steinberg

Diskussionsschriften from Universitaet Bern, Departement Volkswirtschaft - CRED

Abstract: Whether early school stratification is conducive or detrimental to scholastic performance has been subject to controversial debates in educational policy and science across many countries. We exploit a unique exogenous variation in Lower Saxony, Germany, where performance based tracking was preponed from grade 7 to grade 5 in 2004, i.e. with the completion of primary school. In particular, we measure the long-run effects of this reform on PISA achievement test scores based on a difference-in-differences setup. In order to disentangle average from distributional achievement effects, we complementarily rely on a changes-in-changes framework. Our results indicate that preponed school tracking increased test scores at the upper tail of the skill distribution and lowered test scores at the lower tail of the skill distribution, compensating each other on average.

Keywords: Analysis of Education; Education and Inequality; Tracking; Government Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I24 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-12
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Journal Article: The distributional effects of early school stratification - non-parametric evidence from Germany (2020)
Working Paper: The Distributional Effects of Early School Stratification - Non-Parametric Evidence from Germany (2017)
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