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Does educational tracking affect performance and inequality? Differences-in-differences evidence across countries
Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary-school system comprehensive. To estimate the effects of such institutional differences in the face of country heterogeneity, we employ an international differences-in-differences approach. We identify tracking effects by comparing differences in outcome between primary and secondary school across tracked and non-tracked systems. Six international student assessments provide eight pairs of achievement contrasts for between 18 and 26 cross-country comparisons. The results suggest that early tracking increases educational inequality. While less clear, there is also a tendency for early tracking to reduce mean performance. Therefore, there does not appear to be any equity-efficiency trade-off.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 1901
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
- Subject
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tracking
streaming
ability grouping
selectivity
comprehensive school system
education performance
inequality
international student achievement test
TIMSS
PISA
PIRLS
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Schule
Schulpolitik
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Welt
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Hanushek, Eric Alan
Woessmann, Ludger
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2005
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Hanushek, Eric Alan
- Woessmann, Ludger
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2005
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