Does Money Buy Higher Schooling? Evidence from Secondary School Track Choice in Germany

Autor/in	Tamm, Marcus
Titel	Does Money Buy Higher Schooling? Evidence from Secondary School Track Choice in Germany
Quelle	In: Economics of Education Review, 27 (2008) 5, S.536-545 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-7757
DOI	10.1016/j.econedurev.2007.10.005
Schlagwörter	School Choice; Secondary Schools; Academic Achievement; Family Income; Siblings; Correlation; Economic Factors; Foreign Countries; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Choice of school; Schulwahl; Sekundarschule; Schulleistung; Familieneinkommen; Sibling; Geschwister; Korrelation; Ökonomischer Faktor; Ausland; Deutschland
Abstract	The German schooling system selects children into different secondary school tracks already at a very early stage in life. School track choice heavily influences choices and opportunities later in life. It has often been observed that secondary schooling achievements display a strong correlation with parental income. We use sibling fixed effects models and information on a natural experiment in order to analyse whether this correlation is due to a causal effect of income or due to unobservable factors that themselves might be correlated across generations. Our main findings suggest that income has no positive causal effect on school choice and that differences between high- and low-income households are driven by unobserved heterogeneity, e.g. differences in motivation or parenting quality. (Contains 5 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10