system affect equality of educational opportunity. Our model predicts that late tracking and a long pre-school cycle are …

We develop a simple model which determines the optimal timing of school tracking as the outcome of the trade off … between the advantages of specialization, which call for early tracking, and the costs of early selection, which lead to later … tracking. We calibrate the model for Germany and study how relative demand shifts toward more general skills and changes in the …

British selective grammar school system, it would seem that the role of selection (ability tracking) in the school system … of tracking for low/middle ability students. …

system affect equality of educational opportunity. Our model predicts that late tracking and a long pre-school cycle are …

employ an international differences-in-differences approach. We identify tracking effects by comparing differences in outcome … tracking increases educational inequality. While less clear, there is also a tendency for early tracking to reduce mean …

This paper examines educational outcomes of pupils selected to secondary school types by different tracking regimes in … attended later tracking schools. Additionally, the incidence of track modification is relatively frequent for schools with a … high proportion of incoming pupils from the later tracking regime. However, less favorable educational outcomes of the …