Additional career assistance and educational outcomes for students in lower track secondary schools

Bernd Fitzenberger (Humboldt University Berlin and ZEW Mannheim), Stefanie Licklederer (University of Freiburg)

Based on local policy variation, this paper estimates the causal effect of additional career assistance on educational outcomes for students in Lower Track Secondary Schools in Germany. We find mostly insignificant effects of the treatment on average outcomes, which mask quite heterogeneous effects. For those students, who are taking extra coursework to continue education, the grade point average is unaffected and the likelihood of completing a Middle Track Secondary School degree falls. In contrast, educational outcomes improve for students who do not take extra coursework. Hence, the treatment causes a reversal of educational plans after graduation.

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Year of publication:	2017
Authors:	Fitzenberger, Bernd ; Licklederer, Stefanie
Publisher:	Munich, Germany : Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190
Subject:	lower track secondary schools \| career guidance \| educational upgrading \| Erwerbsverlauf \| Occupational attainment \| Bildungsertrag \| Returns to education \| Weiterführende Schule \| Secondary school \| Bildungsniveau \| Educational achievement \| Karriereplanung \| Career development \| Allgemeinbildende Schule \| School of general education \| Studierende \| Students \| Berufsberatung \| Vocational counselling \| Bildungsverhalten \| Educational behaviour \| Schüler \| Pupils