Artikel

School tracking and intergenerational social mobility

The goal of school tracking (assigning students to different types of school by ability) is to increase educational efficiency by creating more homogeneous groups of students that are easier to teach. However, there are concerns that, if begun too early in the schooling process, tracking may improve educational attainment at the cost of reduced intergenerational social mobility. Recent empirical evidence finds no evidence of an efficiency–equality trade-off when tracking is postponed.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Journal: IZA World of Labor ; ISSN: 2054-9571 ; Year: 2018 ; Bonn: Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Classification
Wirtschaft
Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
Education and Inequality
Subject
tracking
intergenerational mobility
educational attainment

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Pekkarinen, Tuomas
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(where)
Bonn
(when)
2018

DOI
doi:10.15185/izawol.56.v2
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  • Artikel

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  • Pekkarinen, Tuomas
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Time of origin

  • 2018

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