TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Brunello, Giorgio
AU  - Giannini, Massimo
AU  - Ariga, Kenn
        TI  - The Optimal Timing of School Tracking
        PY  - 2004/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 995
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp995
        AB  - We develop a simple model which determines the optimal timing of school tracking as the
outcome of the trade off between the advantages of specialization, which call for early
tracking, and the costs of early selection, which lead to later tracking. We calibrate the model
for Germany and study how relative demand shifts toward more general skills and changes in
the (exogenous) rate of technical progress affect the optimal tracking time as well as the
efficient allocation of students to general and vocational tracks.

        KW  - Germany
KW  - secondary schools
KW  - tracking
        ER  -