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Teachers' versus parental choice and the tracking distribution of students: a natural experiment

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  • Marlies Kornfeld
  • Carsten Ochsen

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This article studies the secondary school track choice and considers to what extent parents' and teachers' assessment of students diverge. We take advantage of a reform in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) in 2006. The reform replaced parents' choice about their children's secondary school type by a binding teacher recommendation. Our data comprise class-level information on all public primary schools in the state. We find that teachers tend to recommend higher school types than parents. However, more precise analysis shows that this effect can be limited to districts with above average proportion of immigrants.

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  • Marlies Kornfeld & Carsten Ochsen, 2015. "Teachers' versus parental choice and the tracking distribution of students: a natural experiment," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 47(60), pages 6529-6542, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:applec:v:47:y:2015:i:60:p:6529-6542
    DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2015.1080808
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    1. Krause-Pilatus, Annabelle & Schüller, Simone, 2014. "Evidence and Persistence of Education Inequality in an Early-Tracking System: The German Case," IZA Discussion Papers 8545, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).

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