This article reviews empirical evidence on the early tracking system in Germany and the educational inequalities …-related inequalities in secondary school track placement. Studies on tracking timing and track allocation mechanisms reveal that …. Furthermore, recent evidence concerning long-term consequences of tracking on labor market outcomes suggests that sizeable built …

achievement-based admissions requirements (i.e. binding track recommendations) in Germany's between-school tracking system. The …

This study estimates mean and distributional effects of early between-school ability tracking on student achievement …. For identification, I exploit heterogeneity in tracking regimes between German federal states. After comprehensive primary …. I estimate the effects of this tracking on students' mathematics and reading test scores with a difference …

educational policy and science. We exploit a unique variation in Lower Saxony, Germany, where performance based tracking was … school tracking increased test scores at the upper tail and lowered test scores at the lower tail of the skill distribution …

Over the 2000s, many federal states in Germany shortened the duration of secondary school by one year while keeping the …

transmission of education of a reform that delayed tracking by two years in one of Germany's federal states. While the reform had …Proponents of tracking argue that the creation of more homogeneous classes increases effciency while opponents point … out that tracking aggravates initial differences between students. We estimate the effects on the intergenerational …

transmission of education of a reform that delayed tracking by two years in one of Germany's federal states. While the reform had …Proponents of tracking argue that the creation of more homogeneous classes increases effciency while opponents point … out that tracking aggravates initial differences between students. We estimate the effects on the intergenerational …

This study estimates mean and distributional effects of early between-school ability tracking on student achievement …. For identification, I exploit heterogeneity in tracking regimes between German federal states. After comprehensive primary …. I estimate the effects of this tracking on students' mathematics and reading test scores with a difference …

achievement-based admissions requirements (i.e. binding track recommendations) in Germany's between-school tracking system. The …