In Germany and many other countries, students are tracked into various secondary school types. This paper studies … whether parents or teachers assess students potential educational performance more adequately. Educational attainment is …. The reform replaced parents choice about their children s secondary school type by a binding teacher recommendation. Our …

Without a school degree, students can have difficulty in the labor market. To improve the lives of upper …-secondary school dropouts, German states instituted a school reform that awarded an interim degree to high-track students upon … completion of Grade 9. Using retrospective spell data on school and labor market careers from the National Educational Panel …

encouraging school-leavers to take up apprentice training or a comparable training scheme. The approach chosen intended to employ ….NT systems. The comparison of this information with school-leaver statistics indicated that it was in fact possible to use these … target indicator. Despite good results in creating a data set of school-related data, we thus found that it was not possible …