Despite the prevalence of school tracking, evidence on whether it improves student success is mixed. This paper studies … how tracking within high school impacts high-achieving students' short- and longer-term academic outcomes. Our setting is … a large and selective Chinese high school, where first-year students are separated into high-achieving and regular …

institutional setting where high school teachers are randomly assigned to classes to compute multiple long-run TVA measures based on … university schooling outcomes and high school behavior. We find substantial correlations between test scores and long-run TVA but …