Analysis of medium-run effects of shortening higher secondary school duration by one year in Germany

为了解决受教育年限和参与劳动力市场的时间之间的权衡，德国大多数州将大学预科教育的年限从13年缩短到12年，但保持毕业要求不变。其目的是在更短的时间内达到相同的教育质量水平，使高中毕业生能够更早地开始他们的职业生涯。这一改革对几个结果变量的影响在一个研究项目中进行了分析，该项目由发展筹资小组资助了近五年，并对该项目采取了延期措施。这些分析基于由三波调查收集的独特的小组数据，共有1014名高中毕业生参加了萨克森-安哈尔特2007年双队列毕业生的调查。这些数据包括长期观察期内具有代表性的、广泛和详细的信息--关于家庭背景、学校教育、高等教育和劳动力市场进入。在这一点上，数据与其他可用的数据有很大的不同。在一些研究中，已经分析了改革对学校成绩、工作量和课外活动、人格特征、高等教育决策、大学教育能力和动机以及劳动力市场进入的影响。它们中的一部分已经出版或接受出版。此外，其他联邦州也利用全国范围的数据调查了改革对高等教育的影响。延长该项目的目的是继续进行目前尚未完成的已开始的分析。此外，计划将小组数据与就业研究所(IAB)提供的关于综合劳动力市场传记的行政数据合并。在这一合并数据的基础上，旨在分析改革对劳动力市场成功的长期影响。此外，这些数据可能还可以分析改革对生育率和家庭形成的影响。

To solve the trade-off between length of schooling and length of labor market participation, most German states have reduced the duration of university preparatory schooling from 13 to 12 years but kept constant the graduation requirements. The aim was to achieve the same level of education quality within a shorter period of time to allow high school graduates an earlier start of their professional career. The effects of this reform on several outcome variables were and are analyzed in a research project, which has been funded by the DFG for nearly five years, and for which a prolongation is applied. The analyses are based on unique panel data that have been collected by three survey waves, in which 1,014 high school graduates from the double cohort of graduates 2007 in Saxony-Anhalt participated in total. The data include representative, extensive and detailed information over a long observational period - on family background, school education, post-secondary education and labor market entry. In this, the data differ substantially from other available data. In a number of studies, the reform effects on school achievements, workload and extracurricular activities, personality traits, post-secondary education decisions, abilities and motivation in university education and on labor market entry have been analyzed in a number of studies. A part of them have already been published or are accepted for publication. In addition, the effects of the reform on post-secondary education have also been investigated in other federal states using nationwide data. The objective of the applied prolongation of the project is to continue the started analyses that are not completed by now. Furthermore, it is planned to merge the panel data with administrative data on integrated labor market biographies provided by the Institute for Employment Research (IAB). On the basis of this merged data, it is intended to analyze long-term effects of the reform on success in the labor market. In addition, these data might allow to analyze reform effects on fertility and family formation as well.