I study the effects of selective admission policies in the context of school tracking. Depending on the federal state in Germany, either teachers or parents have the discretion to decide which secondary school track a child may attend after primary school. Applying a differences-in-differences...

Ende der Hauptschule - Ausweg aus der Bildungsmisere? Folgt man dem Titel, dann ist die Hauptschule am Ende. Da dies nur als These, nicht aber als Fakt angesehen werden kann, soll zunächst geklärt werden, ob sie richtig ist und wie sie begründet werden kann. Im zweiten Teil kann dann der...

Ergänzend zu den Beiträgen im ifo Schnelldienst 17/2008 stellt Christa Goetsch, Senatorin für Schule, Berufs- und Weiterbildung der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg, die Bildungspolitik des Hamburger Senats vor. Ab 2010 wird eine neue Schulstruktur deutlich über die Grenzen der dreigliedrigen...

Sollte das deutsche Schulsystem auf eine zweigliedrige Struktur aus Sekundarschulen und Gymnasien umgestellt und die Hauptschule abgeschafft werden? Annette Schavan, Bundesministerin für Bildung und Forschung, spricht sich für den Erhalt der Hauptschulen aus: "Eine starke Hauptschule war, ist...

The value-added to student achievement model has become a key tool for estimating the effects of individual teachers and their classrooms on students’ short-term academic success, and more importantly, on later-life outcomes. We use primary school data from the German National Educational...

This study was prepared by Martin Schlotter while he was working with the Ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in June 2011 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Econcomics at the University of Munich in November 2011. It addresses the effects of different early...

The value-added to student achievement model has become a key tool for estimating the effects of individual teachers and their classrooms on students' short-term academic success, and more importantly, on later-life outcomes. We use primary school data from the German National Educational Panel...

In this paper, I evaluate potential side effects of the educational expansion in Germany on the learning outcomes of today's students. The educational expansion was a demand shock in the labor market of teachers, which could have thus encouraged individuals with different teaching abilities to...

To investigate the effects of reducing the intensity of tracking, this study exploits reforms across German states which combined the two lower secondary school tracks, sometimes additionally offering the possibility to acquire a university entrance qualification. Using a...