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Does educational tracking affect performance and inequality? Differences-in-differences evidence across countries

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dc.creator Hanushek, Eric Alan
dc.creator Woessmann, Ludger
dc.date 2005
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:01:19Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:01:19Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18779
dc.identifier ppn:484400371
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18779
dc.description Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary-school system comprehensive. To estimate the effects of such institutional differences in the face of country heterogeneity, we employ an international differences-in-differences approach. We identify tracking effects by comparing differences in outcome between primary and secondary school across tracked and non-tracked systems. Six international student assessments provide eight pairs of achievement contrasts for between 18 and 26 cross-country comparisons. The results suggest that early tracking increases educational inequality. While less clear, there is also a tendency for early tracking to reduce mean performance. Therefore, there does not appear to be any equity-efficiency trade-off.
dc.language eng
dc.relation CESifo working papers 1415
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject I2
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject tracking
dc.subject streaming
dc.subject ability grouping
dc.subject selectivity
dc.subject comprehensive school system
dc.subject educational performance
dc.subject inequality
dc.subject Bildungsverhalten
dc.subject Schule
dc.subject Schulpolitik
dc.subject Bildungsniveau
dc.subject Vergleich
dc.subject Welt
dc.subject TIMSS
dc.subject PISA
dc.title Does educational tracking affect performance and inequality? Differences-in-differences evidence across countries
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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