Despite its efficiency in tailoring education to the needs of students, a tracking system has the inherent problem of … misallocating students to tracks because of incomplete information at the time of the tracking decision. This paper investigates the … country with a very rigorous tracking system where the risk of misallocating students to tracks is, due to the early age at …

We use a regression-discontinuity design to study the effects of double blocking sixth-grade students in reading and … cutoffs in the test scores used to assign students to double blocking. We find large, positive, and persistent effects of …

This paper estimates the difference in academic performance of the oldest and youngest students in a given grade. We … employ Queensland Department of Education school administration panel data for the population of state school students for …