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Author: | Pekkarinen, T. |
Title: | Gender differences in educational attainment: evidence on the role of tracking from a Finnish quasi-experiment |
Journal: | Scandinavian Journal of Economics
2008 : VOL. 110:4, p. 807-825 |
Index terms: | education gender schools Finland |
Freeterms: | tracking |
Language: | eng |
Abstract: | The relationship between the timing of tracking of pupils into vocational and academic secondary education and gender differences are studied in educational attainment and income. The study argues that in a comprehensive system, where students are tracked into vocational and academic schools relatively late (age 15-16), girls are more likely to choose the academic track than boys. The Finnish school reform of the 1970s is exploited to analyse the hypothesis. The shift to a comprehensive system was found to increase gender differences in the probability of choosing an academic secondary education and of continuing onto academic tertiary education. |
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