Ability Tracking, School and Parental Effort, and Student Achievement
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We develop and estimate an equilibrium model of ability tracking. In the model, a school chooses how to allocate students into tracks based on their ability and chooses track-specific inputs. Parents choose parental effort in response. We estimate the model using data from the ECLS-K. We use the estimated model to first examine the effects of disallowing tracking on school and parental inputs and student achievement. We then examine how policies that change proficiency standards affect equilibrium tracking, school inputs, parental effort and student achievement.
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Ability Tracking, Parental Effort and Student Achievement∗
We develop and estimate an equilibrium model of ability tracking. A school allocates students into tracks based on their ability and then chooses trackspecific inputs to test score production. Parents choose parental effort in response. We estimate the model using data from the ECLS-K. We use the estimated model to quantify the effects of allowing ability tracking, making proficiency standards ...
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