Tracking and the Intergenerational Transmission of Education: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Simon Lange and Marten von Werder

VfS Annual Conference 2016 (Augsburg): Demographic Change from Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association

Abstract: Proponents of tracking argue that the creation of more homogeneous classes increases efficiency while opponents fear that tracking aggravates initial differences between students. We estimate the effects on the intergenerational transmission of education of a reform that delayed tracking by two years in one of Germany’s federal states. While the reform had no effect on educational outcomes on average, it increased educational attainment among individuals with uneducated parents and decreased attainment among individuals with educated parents. The reform thus lowered the gradient between parental education and own education. The effect is driven entirely by changes in the gradient for males.

JEL-codes: I21 I24 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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Journal Article: Tracking and the intergenerational transmission of education: Evidence from a natural experiment (2017)
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