TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Ariga, Kenn
AU  - Brunello, Giorgio
AU  - Iwahashi, Roki
AU  - Rocco, Lorenzo
        TI  - Why Is the Timing of School Tracking So Heterogeneous?
        PY  - 2005/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 1854
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp1854
        AB  - Secondary schools in the developed world differ in the degree of differentiation and in the first age of selection of pupils into different tracks. In this paper, we account for the heterogeneity of tracking time with a simple stochastic model which conjugates the returns from specialization with the costs of early selection. We calibrate the model for 20 countries – including most of Europe, the US and Japan – and show that the model performs rather well in replicating the observed heterogeneity, with the remarkable exception of Germany.
        KW  - tracking
KW  - secondary schools
        ER  -