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

Autor: Carsten Ochsen, Marlies Kornfeld
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Applied Economics. 47:6529-6542
ISSN: 1466-4283
0003-6846
DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2015.1080808
Popis: 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.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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