School tracking and development of cognitive skills

@inproceedings{Pekkala2007SchoolTA,
  title={School tracking and development of cognitive skills},
  author={Sari Pekkala and Tuomas Pekkarinen and Roope Uusitalo},
  year={2007}
}

• Sari Pekkala, Tuomas Pekkarinen, Roope Uusitalo
• Published 2007

School Tracking and Development of Cognitive Skills The Finnish comprehensive school reform replaced the old two-track school system with a uniform nine-year comprehensive school and significantly reduced the degree of heterogeneity in the Finnish primary and secondary education. We estimate the effect of this reform on the test scores in the Finnish Army Basic Skills test. The identification strategy relies on a differences-in-differences strategy and exploits the fact that the reform was… CONTINUE READING

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