Based on an innovative survey of seventh graders in German secondary schools, this paper analyzes students' feelings that they should be on a higher educational track, We show that ethnic minority students are not only more likely than majority students to be placed in the lowest track, but they...

This study was prepared by Gabriela Schütz while she was working with the Ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in September 2008 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Department of the University of Munich (LMU). The topic of this study is an econometric analysis...

Viele Jugendliche in Deutschland besuchen eine Schulform, die ihren kognitiven Fähigkeiten nicht entspricht. Das Underachievement-Risiko ist ungleich verteilt: Schüler aus Familien mit niedrigerer Bildung haben ein drei Mal höheres Risiko als Alters-genossen aus besser gebildeten Familien....