This paper studies responses to high-stakes incentives arising from early ability tracking. We use three complementary research designs exploiting differences in school track admission rules at the end of primary school in Germany’s early ability tracking system. Our results show that the need...

This paper studies heterogeneity in schooling decisions by socio-economic status (SES) in response to a repeal of achievement-based admissions requirements (i.e. binding track recommendations) in Germany's between-school tracking system. The main contribution is to show that while previously...

This paper studies responses to high-stakes incentives arising from early ability tracking. We use three complementary research designs exploiting differences in school track admission rules at the end of primary school in Germany's early ability tracking system. Our results show that the need...

Im Jahre 2009 ist in Deutschland die UN Konvention über die Rechte von Menschen mit Behinderungen (UN-BRK) in Kraft getreten, in welcher sich Deutschland verpflichtet, ein inklusives Bildungssystem zu gewährleisten. Dafür müssen die Bundesländer grundlegende Reformen einleiten: Das Recht...