Tracking and the intergenerational transmission of education: Evidence from a natural experiment

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Abstract Proponents of tracking argue that the creation of more homogeneous classes increases efficiency while opponents fear that tracking aggravates initial differences between students. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor mayWe estimate the effects on the intergenerational transmission of education of a reform that delayed tracking by two years in one of Germany's federal states. While the reform had no effect on educational outcomes on average, it increased educational attainment among individuals with uneducated parents and decreased attainment among individuals with educated parents. The reform thus lowered the gradient between parental education and own education. The effect is driven entirely by changes in the gradient for males.

School tracking and intergenerational social mobility

“…Using a similar strategy to look at the effects on long-TUOMAS PEKKARINEN | School tracking and intergenerational social mobility term outcomes in Sweden, a study finds that the comprehensive school reform had no significant effects on educational attainment or adult earnings [7]. In line with these results, the study on the effects of postponing tracking in Lower Saxony fails to find any average effects on adult educational attainment [9]. The only study that finds clearly negative effects from postponing tracking shows a higher probability of dropping out among low-achieving students in Sweden when tracking is postponed beyond the end of compulsory schooling [10].…”

“…The reform, which postponed tracking by five years, significantly increased intergenerational income mobility. A study on the effects of postponing tracking in the German state of Lower Saxony finds that this reform decreased the correlation of educational attainment across generations and did this mainly by increasing the educational attainment of individuals from low-educated families [9].…”

“…The author thanks two anonymous referees and the IZA World of Labor editors for many helpful suggestions on earlier drafts. Version 2 of the article introduces empirical evidence for the effect of tracking on immigrant generations and more country evidence from Germany, adding two new "Key references" [4], [9].…”

Intergenerational Discourse on the Problems of Russian Education and Creation of Bilingual Environment

“…In general, we may say, that the intergenerational differentiation between educational practices and assessments of the system of education up to date has been studied only partially. The Western European and American authors examine a problem of intergenerational discourse in education mostly in the context of two-pair (parents -children) generations within the same family (Sánchez et al, 2018;Lange and von Werder, 2017).…”

The long-run effects of reducing early school tracking

“…My paper adds to the tracking literature by showing that decreasing the intensity of tracking at an early age raises individuals' wages in the long run. Other policies that delay or abolish tracking have been shown to improve educational attainment and test scores (Galindo-Rueda and Vignoles, 2007;Malamud and Pop-Eleches, 2011;Kerr et al, 2013;Piopiunik, 2014;Lange and von Werder, 2017;Zilic, 2018). However, evidence on how these types of reforms affect individuals' labor market opportunities is relatively scarce.…”