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This paper investigates how changing the length of school year, leaving the basic curriculum unchanged, affects learning and subsequent earnings. I use variation introduced by the West-German short school years in 1966-67, which exposed some students to a total of about two thirds of a year less...
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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 …
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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 …
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The goal of school tracking (assigning students to different types of school by ability) is to increase educational … too early in the schooling process, tracking may improve educational attainment at the cost of reduced intergenerational … social mobility. Recent empirical evidence finds no evidence of an efficiency-equality trade-off when tracking is postponed. …
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We study life-cycle educational transitions in an education system characterized by early tracking and …
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academic high school education could be a key bottleneck in further expansion. The way tracking operates between academic and … young population cohorts decline. The paper examines the sector's key constraints in access, financing, tracking, and …
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