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Does the Early Bird Catch the Worm? Instrumental Variable Estimates of Educational Effects of Age of School Entry in Germany
Puhani, Patrick A.; Weber, Andrea M. - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2006
We estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational attainment using three different data sets for Germany, sampling pupils at the end of primary school, in the middle of secondary school and several years after secondary school. Results are obtained based on instrumental variable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005797670
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Does the Early Bird Catch the Worm? Instrumental Variable Estimates of Educational Effects of Age of School Entry in Germany
Puhani, Patrick A.; Weber, Andrea M. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Leibniz … - 2006
We estimate the effect of age of schoo entry on educational outcomes using two different data sets for Germany, sampling pupils at the end of primary school and in the middle of secondary school. Results are obtained based on instrumental variable estimation exploiting the exogenous variation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005464695
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Does the Early Bird Catch the Worm? Instrumental Variable Estimates of Educational Effects of Age of School Entry in Germany
Puhani, Patrick A.; Weber, Andrea M. - Fachbereich Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, … - 2005
We estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational attainment using three different data sets for Germany, sampling pupils at the end of primary school, in the middle of secondary school and several years after secondary school. Results are obtained based on instrumental variable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008464627
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Academic achievement and tracking : a theory based on grading standards
Ehlers, Tim; Schwager, Robert - 2019
We present a theory explaining the impact of ability tracking on academic performance based on grading policies. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012105595
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The effects of delayed tracking : evidence from German states
Lange, Simon; Werder, Marten von - 2014
Germany's education system stands out among OECD countries for early tracking: students are tracked into different … a reform that delayed tracking by two years. While our findings suggest that the reform had no effect on educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010463718
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The distributional effects of early school stratification : non-parametric evidence from Germany
Roller, Marcus; Steinberg, Daniel - 2017
educational policy and science. We exploit a unique variation in Lower Saxony, Germany, where performance based tracking was … school tracking increased test scores at the upper tail and lowered test scores at the lower tail of the skill distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011790657
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Whose children gain from starting school later? Evidence from Hungary
Hámori, Szilvia; Kollo, Janos - 2011
We look at the effect of school starting age on standardized test scores using data covering all grade four and grade eight students in Hungary. Instrumental variables estimates of the local average treatment effect suggest that children generally gain from starting school one year later and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278579
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Whose Children Gain from Starting School Later? Evidence from Hungary
Hámori, Szilvia; Köllő, János - 2011
We look at the effect of school starting age on standardized test scores using data covering all grade four and grade eight students in Hungary. Instrumental variables estimates of the local average treatment effect suggest that children generally gain from starting school one year later and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494714
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Does early educational tracking increase migrant-native achievement gaps? : differences-in-differences evidence across countries
Ruhose, Jens; Schwerdt, Guido - 2015
We study whether early tracking of students based on ability increases migrant-native achievement gaps. To eliminate … variation in the age of tracking as well as student achievement before and after potential tracking. Based on pooled data from …-biased. Our differences-in-differences estimates suggest that early tracking does not significantly affect overall migrant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498389
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Does early educational tracking increase migrant-native achievement gaps?
Ruhose, Jens; Schwerdt, Guido - 2015
We study whether early tracking of students based on ability increases migrant-native achievement gaps. To eliminate … variation in the age of tracking as well as student achievement before and after potential tracking. Based on pooled data from …-biased. Our differences-in-differences estimates suggest that early tracking does not significantly affect overall migrant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010492327