I am professor of environmental economics at RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau, associate researcher at ETH Zurich, Fellow of the CESifo Research Network, and member of the Standing Field Committe...

Nachrichten aus Baden-Württemberg mit Georg Bruder

The state of Baden-Württemberg is a powerhouse of the global economy. Its welfare is therefore - perhaps more than elsewhere - dependent on the proper of

I am an Assistant Professor of Development Economics at the University of Goettingen. Before that, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Development Economics (Prof. Dr. Andreas Fuchs)...

We invite you to a FAIR Seminar with Nadja Dwenger. Dwenger is full professor of Economics at the University of Hohenheim, where she holds the Chair of Public Economics. She is also an affiliated researcher at the Chr. Michelsen Institute …

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We exploit a German state-level reform that shifted the right to decide on students’ secondary school track from teachers to parents. Applying a disaggregated synthetic control approach to administrative data, we find that transition rates to higher tracks increase substantially, with stronger responses in richer districts. Simultaneously, grade repetition in the first grades of secondary school almost doubles, which has implications on graduation rates at the end of secondary school. Evidence from micro-level data allowing linkage of student achievement to family, teacher, and school characteristics confirms: when high-SES parents are given the right, they disproportionately place their children in higher-than-recommended tracks. This comes at the expense of worse achievement gains for their children.

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