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Streams and Tiers: The Interaction of Ability, Maturity, and Training in Systems with Age-Dependent Recursive Selection

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“…For example, our results are by and large consistent with proposals that early stages of the selection process should (i) not be too competitive (Helsen, Van Winckel, and Williams, 2005), (ii) avoid irreversible decisions with respect to educational tracks (Sprietsma, 2010;Jürges and Schneider, 2011), and (iii) show more leniency with respect to binding cutoff dates (Bedard and Dhuey, 2006). Secondly, with respect to selection errors, our paper formalizes and extends the analysis of Allen and Barnsley (1993) who point attention to the social costs due to inefficient allocation of training resources in the presence of age effects. In particular, the optimal selection rules we characterize are precisely those under which those selection errors are minimized.…”
Section: Framework and Resultssupporting
confidence: 85%
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“…For example, our results are by and large consistent with proposals that early stages of the selection process should (i) not be too competitive (Helsen, Van Winckel, and Williams, 2005), (ii) avoid irreversible decisions with respect to educational tracks (Sprietsma, 2010;Jürges and Schneider, 2011), and (iii) show more leniency with respect to binding cutoff dates (Bedard and Dhuey, 2006). Secondly, with respect to selection errors, our paper formalizes and extends the analysis of Allen and Barnsley (1993) who point attention to the social costs due to inefficient allocation of training resources in the presence of age effects. In particular, the optimal selection rules we characterize are precisely those under which those selection errors are minimized.…”
Section: Framework and Resultssupporting
confidence: 85%
“…Second, there are often other factors which obscure the eventual "gleaming" (Allen and Barnsley, 1993) of ability, e.g. through observable performance or skill signals.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…They also find higher effects for children with more favorable parental background, sug-3 The concept of "relative age" was first introduced by Allen and Barnsley [1993] and refers to age differences between individuals that are grouped by cohort (based on a specific cutoff date).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Brunello, Giannini, and Ariga [2007] argue that the allocation of students to tracks is based on a noisy signal and that the size of the noise is decreasing with the age at first selection. Allen and Barnsley [1993] and Bedard and Dhuey [2006] stress that the long-run cost of the misallocation rise with the difference in the rates of human capital accumulation between tracks.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%