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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...
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The goal of school tracking (assigning students to different types of school by ability) is to increase educational efficiency by creating more homogeneous groups of students that are easier to teach. However, there are concerns that, if begun too early in the schooling process, tracking may...
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university and the most important qualification in the German education system. On average, a 10 percentile increase in the … secondary education in Germany. At the regional level, there exists substantial variation in mobility estimates. Place effects …
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expanding upper secondary education. At the regional level, there exists substantial variation in mobility estimates. Place …
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expanding upper secondary education. At the regional level, there exists substantial variation in mobility estimates. Place …
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regular siblings explain 33 percent of the variance in educational attainment between individuals, with parental education … factors that do not correlate with parental education. Strikingly, despite pervasive changes in the distribution of … be roughly stable across cohorts. Despite a reduction in overall education inequality, we conclude that family background …
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strengthened intragenerational association between earnings rank and education among parents, as educational achievement has an …
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expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full …-time education. However, the main driver is the perceived consumption value, which alone explains around half of the variation of the … intention to pursue higher education. Moreover, the perceived consumption value can account for a substantial part of both the …
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expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full …-time education. However, the main driver is the perceived consumption value, which alone explains around half of the variation of the … intention to pursue higher education. Moreover, the perceived consumption value can account for a substantial part of both the …
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-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES …
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