Discussion paper

DP6552 School Tracking Across the Baltic Sea

In spite of their relative vicinity Scandinavian countries and Central European countries (mainly Germany) have substantially different schooling institutions. While the former group of countries delays school tracking until age 16, the latter group anticipates differentiation between age 10 and age 13. This paper proposes a simple median voter model of school design which accounts rather well for these differences. The key idea is that voters weight the potential advantages of early tracking in terms of higher wages and human capital against the information loss associated to early selection.

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Citation

Brunello, G, K Ariga, L Rocco and R Iwahashi (2007), ‘DP6552 School Tracking Across the Baltic Sea‘, CEPR Discussion Paper No. 6552. CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/dp6552