TY  - INPR
CY  - Chicago, Ill
ID  - publications48088
UR  - http://tse-fr.eu/pub/128205
A1  - De Groote, Olivier
Y1  - 2024///
N2  - I investigate high school tracking policies using a dynamic discrete choice
model of study programs and unobserved effort. I estimate the model using
data from Flanders (Belgium) and perform an ex-ante evaluation of a policy
that encourages underperforming students to switch to less academically ori-
ented programs. This reduces grade retention by a third and dropout by 11%.
Although it decreases college enrollment, the decrease in college graduation is
small and insignificant. I also show that modeling effort is important, otherwise
we would predict smaller decreases in grade retention and dropout and larger
decreases in college enrollment and graduation.
PB  - University of Chicago Press
JF  - Journal of Labor Economics
SN  - 0734-306X
TI  - Dynamic effort choice in high school: costs and benefits of an academic track
AV  - public
ER  -