Students' behavioural responses to a fallback option : evidence from introducing interim degrees in German schools
Natalie Obergruber, Larissa Zierow
Without a school degree, students can have difficulty in the labor market. To improve the lives of upper-secondary school dropouts, German states instituted a school reform that awarded an interim degree to high-track students upon completion of Grade 9. Using retrospective spell data on school and labor market careers from the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), our difference-in-differences approach exploits the staggered implementation of this reform between 1965 and 1982. As intended, the reform reduced switching between school tracks. Surprisingly, it also increased successful high-track completion, university entrance rates, and later income, arguably by reducing the perceived risk of trying longer in the high-track school.
Year of publication: |
August 2018
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Authors: | Obergruber, Natalie ; Zierow, Larissa |
Publisher: |
Bonn, Germany : IZA |
Subject: | school dropout | school degree | school tracking | Deutschland | Germany | Schule | School | Suchtheorie | Search theory | Abbrecher | Drop-outs | Bildungsabschluss | Educational attainment | Allgemeinbildende Schule | School of general education | Schulauswahl | School choice | Studierende | Students | Schätzung | Estimation |
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Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource (circa 44 Seiten) Illustrationen |
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Series: | Discussion paper series / IZA. - Bonn : IZA, ZDB-ID 2120053-1. - Vol. no. 11732 |
Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Type of publication (narrower categories): | Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature ; Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Other identifiers: | hdl:10419/185192 [Handle] |
Classification: | I20 - Education. General ; i24 ; I28 - Government Policy |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011895692