Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/248858 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 21-104
Publisher: 
ZEW - Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung, Mannheim
Abstract: 
This paper studies heterogeneity in schooling decisions by socio-economic status (SES) in response to a repeal of achievement-based admissions requirements (i.e. binding track recommendations) in Germany's between-school tracking system. The main contribution is to show that while previously ineligible high-SES students are relatively more likely to enroll in the highest (academic) track than comparable low-SES students after the repeal, the SES gap in academic track enrollment does not increase. The reason is that low-SES students, who were already eligible for the academic track before the repeal, increase their probability of enrolling in the academic track. A key mechanism driving low-SES students' response appears to be lower preferences for the intermediate track due to concerns about the inflow of mostly low-achieving and low-SES students from the lowest (basic) track after the repeal.
Subjects: 
education
school choice
intergenerational mobility
inequality of opportunity
tracking
JEL: 
I24
I28
J24
J62
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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