@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp2534,
            	author={Ariga, Kenn and Brunello, Giorgio and Iwahashi, Roki and Rocco, Lorenzo},
            	title={On the Efficiency Costs of De-tracking Secondary Schools},
            	year={2006},
	month={Dec},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={2534},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp2534},
	abstract={During the postwar period, many countries have de-tracked their secondary schools, based on the view that early tracking was unfair. What are the efficiency costs, if any, of de-tracking schools? To answer this question, we develop a two skills - two jobs model with a frictional labour market, where new school graduates need to actively search for their best match. We compute optimal tracking length and the output gain/loss associated to the gap between actual and optimal tracking length. Using a sample of 18 countries, we find that: a) actual tracking length is often longer than optimal, which might call for some efficient de-tracking; b) the output loss of having a tracking length longer or shorter than optimal is sizeable, and close to 2 percent of total net output.},
	keywords={mismatch;school tracking},
            }