Students' behavioural responses to a fallback option. Evidence from introducing interim degrees in german schools.

Autor/inn/en	Obergruber, Natalie; Zierow, Larissa
Institution	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit
Titel	Students' behavioural responses to a fallback option. Evidence from introducing interim degrees in german schools.
Quelle	Bonn: Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (2018), 26 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	IZA Discussion paper. 11732
Beigaben	Literaturangaben
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Kontrollgruppe; Schulreform; Schule; Schüler; Qualifizierender Hauptschulabschluss; Schulabschluss; Schülerleistung; Sitzen bleiben; Arbeitsmarktchance; Abbruch; NEPS (National Educational Panel Study)
Abstract	Without a school degree, students can have difficulty in the labour market. To improve the lives of upper-secondary school dropouts, German states instituted a school reform that awarded an interim degree to high-track students upon completion of Grade 9. Using retrospective spell data on school careers from the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), our difference-in-differences approach exploits the staggered implementation of this reform between 1965 and 1996. As intended, the reform reduced downgrading to lower school tracks. Surprisingly, it also increased successful high-track completion, arguably by reducing the perceived risk of trying longer to succeed in the high-track school. (Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2021/2