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| Title: | | Does educational tracking affect performance and inequality? Differences-in-differences evidence across countries  |
| Authors: | | Hanushek, Eric Alan Woessmann, Ludger |
| Issue Date: | | 2005 |
| Series/Report no.: | | CESifo working papers 1415 |
| 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-in-differences 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. |
| Subjects: | | tracking streaming ability grouping selectivity comprehensive school system educational performance inequality |
| JEL: | | I2 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | CESifo Working Papers, CESifo Group Munich
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