Does Education Tracking Affect Performance and Inequality? Differences-In-Differences Evidence Across Countries
Eric Hanushek and
Ludger Wößmann ()
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Ludger Wößmann: Ifo Institute for Economic Research
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No 04-026, Discussion Papers from Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
Abstract:
Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary-school system comprehensive. To estimate the effects of such institutional differences in the face of country heterogeneity, we employ an international differences-indifferences approach. We identify tracking effects by comparing differences in outcome between primary and secondary school across tracked and non-tracked systems. Six international student assessments provide eight pairs of achievement contrasts for between 18 and 26 cross-country comparisons. The results suggest that early tracking increases educational inequality. While less clear, there is also a tendency for early tracking to reduce mean performance. Therefore, there does not appear to be any equity-efficiency trade-off.
JEL-codes: I2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-02
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Journal Article: Does Educational Tracking Affect Performance and Inequality? Differences- in-Differences Evidence Across Countries (2006)
Working Paper: Does educational tracking affect performance and inequality? differences-in-differences evidence across countries (2006)
Working Paper: Does Educational Tracking Affect Performance and Inequality? Differences-in-Differences Evidence across Countries (2005) 
Working Paper: Does Educational Tracking Affect Performance and Inequality? Differences-in-Differences Evidence across Countries (2005) 
Working Paper: Does Educational Tracking Affect Performance and Inequality? Differences-in-Differences Evidence across Countries (2005) 
Working Paper: Does Educational Tracking Affect Performance and Inequality? Differences-in-Differences Evidence across Countries (2005) 
Working Paper: Does Education Tracking Affect Performance and Inequality? Differences-In-Differences Evidence Across Countries (2005) 
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