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De Groote, Olivier
(2024)
Dynamic effort choice in high school: costs and benefits of an academic track.
Journal of Labor Economics.
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Abstract
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 oriented 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, smaller decreases in grade retention and dropout and larger decreases in college enrollment and graduation would be predicted.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Language: | English |
| Date: | 2024 |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Place of Publication: | Chicago, Ill |
| Subjects: | B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE |
| Divisions: | TSE-R (Toulouse) |
| Site: | UT1 |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Jul 2023 13:59 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Feb 2025 10:52 |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:tse-fr.eu:128205 |
| URI: | https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/48088 |
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