This paper examines educational outcomes of pupils selected to secondary school types by different tracking regimes in a German state: The traditional regime of streaming pupils after fourth grade of elementary school is compared to a regime in which pupils are selected into different secondary...

In dieser Arbeit untersuchen wir die Auswirkung des Einschulungsalters auf den späteren schulischen Erfolg. Grundlage der empirischen Analysen sind zwei unterschiedliche Datensätze für Deutschland, die Individualdaten von Schülern am Ende der Grundschule und in der weiterführenden Schule...

We estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational attainment using three different data sets for Germany, sampling pupils at the end of primary school, in the middle of secondary school and several years after secondary school. Results are obtained based on instrumental variable...

We estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational outcomes using two different data sets for Germany, sampling pupils at the end of primary school and in the middle of secondary school. Results are obtained based on instrumental variable estimation exploiting the exogenous variation...