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| Titre : | De-tracking at the margin: How alternative secondary education pathways affect student attainment (2025) |
| Auteurs : | Sönke Hendrik Matthewes ; Camilla Borgna |
| Type de document : | Article : document électronique |
| Dans : | Economics of Education Review (Vol. 104, February 2025) |
| Article en page(s) : | Article 102608 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Catégories : |
Thésaurus CEREQ POLITIQUE DE L'EDUCATION ; SYSTEME EDUCATIF ; RENDEMENT DE L'EDUCATION ; CHEMINEMENT SCOLAIRE ; ENSEIGNEMENT SECONDAIRE ; BACCALAUREAT ; COLLEGE ; LYCEE ; LYCEE PROFESSIONNEL ; DISPARITE REGIONALE ; APPROCHE LOCALE ; ALLEMAGNE |
| Résumé : | This paper estimates how marginal increases in the flexibility of between-school tracking affect student attainment by exploiting the addition of non-selective ‘comprehensive schools’ and hybrid ‘vocational high schools’ to Germany’s tracked school system. These schools opened up alternative pathways to the university-entrance certificate, which traditionally could only be obtained at academic-track schools. We use administrative records to compile a county-level panel of school supply and attainment for 13 cohorts between 1995 and 2007. Cross-sectionally, the supplies of all three school types awarding the university-entrance certificate correlate positively with its attainment. However, for academic-track and comprehensive schools this association is not robust to the inclusion of regional controls, suggesting that it reflects regional differences in educational demand rather than supply-side effects. For vocational high schools, in contrast, we find robust evidence for positive attainment effects not only in cross-sectional and two-way fixed-effects panel regressions, but also in an event-study design that exploits the quasi-random timing of new school openings. Likely reasons for their success are that they lower the (perceived) costs of educational upgrading for late-bloomers, and their hybrid curriculum, which may retain students in general schooling who would otherwise enter vocational training. |
| Document Céreq : | Non |
| En ligne : | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102608 |
