Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group, 11.08.2020 | Armin Falk, Pia Pinger, & Fabian Kosse

“Access to high-quality education has been shown to be an important component of success in later life, leading to better health outcomes, higher wages, and greater overall life satisfaction. Despite this knowledge, differential access to education persists in many countries around the world, often in the form of early tracking. […] IP network leader Armin Falk, ECI network member Pia Pinger, and IP network member Fabian Kosse study the inequality implications in the German education system […] “We document a large inequality of opportunity gap in the sense that we show that children from different socioeconomic status backgrounds have vastly different opportunities when it comes to their school choices in the secondary school system in Germany,” Pinger says.”

Link to article: https://hceconomics.uchicago.edu/news/research-spotlight-mentoring-and-schooling-decisions-causal-evidence