Age of Tracking and Educational Choices: New Evidences from Switzerland

Falter, Jean-Marc (2011). Age of Tracking and Educational Choices: New Evidences from Switzerland. Geneva: University of Geneva

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Many studies have investigated the impact of the age of tracking on educational outcomes. Evidences show that intergenerational correlation in educational attainment are stronger when the timing of school tracking takes place relatively early. We analyze the impact of the age of tracking with the help of a unique dataset, TREE, which is a longitudinal follow-up of individuals first surveyed in PISA 2000. Thus, we contribute to the literature by disentangling between ability effects and parental background effects. Our results show that early tracking indeed seems to to have an impact on the magnitude of intergenerational links. Yet, the results heavily depend on the level of measured ability as well as on the type of education considered.

Item Type:

Other

Division/Institute:

03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Institute of Sociology

Publisher:

University of Geneva

Projects:

[1036] Transitions from Education to Employment (TREE) Official URL

Language:

English

Submitter:

Thomas Meyer

Date Deposited:

28 Oct 2019 10:04

Last Modified:

28 Oct 2019 10:04

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/130871

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