Dustmann, C;
Puhani, PA;
Schönberg, U;
(2017)
The Long-term Effects of Early Track Choice.
The Economic Journal
, 127
(603)
pp. 1348-1380.
10.1111/ecoj.12419.
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Abstract
We investigate the effects of attending a more advanced track in middle school on long-term education and labour market outcomes for Germany, a country with a rigorous early-age tracking system, where the risk of misallocating students is particularly high. Our research design exploits quasi-random shifts between tracks induced by date of birth, and speaks to the long-term effects of early track attendance for a group of marginal students most at risk of misallocation. Remarkably, we find no evidence that attending a more advanced track leads to more favourable long-term outcomes. We attribute this result to the possibility of later track-reversal.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Long-term Effects of Early Track Choice |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/ecoj.12419 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12419 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Economics |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1561127 |
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