Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/33526 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1854
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Secondary schools in the developed world differ in the degree of differentiation and in the first age of selection of pupils into different tracks. In this paper, we account for the heterogeneity of tracking time with a simple stochastic model which conjugates the returns from specialization with the costs of early selection. We calibrate the model for 20 countries including most of Europe, the US and Japan and show that the model performs rather well in replicating the observed heterogeneity, with the remarkable exception of Germany.
Subjects: 
tracking
secondary schools
JEL: 
H52
H73
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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