Arbeitspapier
Tracking When Ranking Matters
This paper investigates the effect of grouping students by prior achievement into different classes (or schools) in settings where students are competing for admission to programs offering only a limited number of places. We first develop a model that identifies the conditions under which the practice of tracking students by prior achievement increases inequalities between students that do not initially have the same academic background, such as may exist between students with different social backgrounds. We then test our model using new data on the competitive entrance exams to elite scientific higher education programs in France. We find that 70% of the inequality in success in these exams between students from different social backgrounds can be explained by the practice of tracking students by prior achievement that prevails during the years of preparation for these exams.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 15157
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Estimation: General
Model Construction and Estimation
Analysis of Education
Higher Education; Research Institutions
Education and Inequality
- Thema
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ability tracking
competition
higher education
inequalities
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Landaud, Fanny
Maurin, Eric
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2022
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Landaud, Fanny
- Maurin, Eric
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2022
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