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Muhlenweg, Andrea M.; Puhani, Patrick A. – Journal of Human Resources, 2010
In Germany, students are streamed at age ten into an academic or nonacademic track. We demonstrate that the randomly allocated disadvantage of being born just before as opposed to just after the cutoff date for school entry leads to substantially different schooling experiences. Relatively young students are initially only two-thirds as likely to…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Foreign Countries, Track System (Education), Age Differences