Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/107404 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 163
Publisher: 
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Courant Research Centre - Poverty, Equity and Growth (CRC-PEG), Göttingen
Abstract: 
Germany's education system stands out among OECD countries for early tracking: students are tracked into different secondary school types at the age of ten in most German states. In this paper we estimate the effects on educational outcomes of a reform that delayed tracking by two years. While our findings suggest that the reform had no effect on educational outcomes on average, we find a positive effect on male students with uneducated parents and a negative effect on males with educated parents. The reform thus increased equality of opportunity among males, yet not among females. We argue that the gendered pattern is best explained by developmental differences between boys and girls at the relevant age.
Subjects: 
tracking
educational institutions
intergenerational mobility
JEL: 
I21
I24
I28
J62
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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