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LOCATION:Eleanor-Dulles-Raum,DIW Berlin im Quartier 110,5.2.010,Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Straße 58,10117 Berlin
SUMMARY:Selecting the selected? A silbing-analysis on tertiary education transition in Germany
DESCRIPTION:12:30 - 13:30 // Past studies found considerable impact of parental background on educational decisions, especially  in countries with early educational tracking. Our knowledge is however still limited regarding its  impact on educational decisions later on in life, like the transition to tertiary education. Do all pupils  who reach the highest secondary school track face the same opportunities to go to the university?   And how persistent is the parental background effect which is already decisive for the selection into  secondary school? Rational choice models regard probability of success as one of the major  components in the explanation of educational transitions. Thus, we address this question decomposing this probability as a function of observable and unobservable characteristics using  school grades and subjective estimations about future educational success. Since both of this  measures could be shaped by norms, values, parental educational wishes and other traits transmitted mainly within the family, a sibling analysis is performed. The data we use is derived from German  Socio-economic Panel (SOEP) and has the great advantage that we can track pupils who participated  in the survey at the age of 17 later in life. Our results - which are stable even accounting for unobservables in the selection mechanism - are twofold, showing on the one hand, that only the  family's grade average and not the individual deviation from it have a significant effect on the  probability to go to university. This points at a strong influence of parental background also on the transition to tertiary education. On the other hand, subjective perceptions show to have an individual effect which holds even if controlling for family effects. This final result gives a hopeful scenario for policy makers and opens interesting opportunities for further research.
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URL:https://www.diw.de/en/diw_01.c.462241.en/events/selecting_the_selected_a_silbing_analysis_on_tertiary_education_transition_in_germany.html
ORGANIZER;CN=Alexandra Avdeenko:mailto:aavdeenko@diw.de
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