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The Impact of Delaying Early School Tracking on Fertility and Marriage Outcomes
Get PDFThis paper studies how the type of education pursued at an early age affects family formation. I focus on a French reform that delayed the age of which students were tracked into either general or vocational education from age 11 to age 13. For the most part, tracking was replaced with grouping students into classrooms based on ability, but within a common general education curriculum. Using a regression discontinuity design, I show that the reform increased the likelihood of attaining a technical rather than a vocational degree, especially for individuals from low socioeconomic backgrounds. This indicates that the reform led to an increase in the quality of education. I further find that the reform increased completed fertility for individuals from low socioeconomic backgrounds, particularly women. In the marriage market, the reform changed the characteristics of women’s partners without impacting marriage, cohabitation, or divorce rates. Specifically, women were more likely to have partners who were in high-skilled occupations and who were closer to their own ages. Taken together, these findings highlight that delaying early school tracking has significant consequences for family formation
The Rise and Fall of Technology in Historical Perspective: Lessons and Experiences from China
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Why Are Americans so Displeased with the Economy?: Measuring Whether Economic News Has Become More Negative
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Emerging Giants and Lessons for Development: China, India, and Their Different Paths to Progress
Get PDFThis book explores the differences and commonalities in growth experiences of two looming economic giants, China and India—countries that follow often-contrasting economic, social, and political paths as they struggle to achieve long-term prosperity for their billion-plus populations. The papers included within show that the economic and political realities in the two countries are quite different, and that these realities are deeply embedded in each country’s social framework. China and India are at markedly different stages of economic development but the challenges facing the two countries, unsurprisingly, diverge—not only because of the different stage of development each has reached, but also because their institutions are vastly unlike each other. Thus, each country presents a unique profile of problems and possibilities, and the volume’s six authors explore the topic’s many different aspects with expert insights. The contributors are David Dollar, Shenngan Fan, Yasheng Huang, Kaivan Munshi, and Oded Shenkar.https://research.upjohn.org/up_press/1292/thumbnail.jp
