Our results suggest the need to look earlier in students’ educational trajectories and family experiences to understand the origins of political interest and civic engagement.

💡 Key findings
-Students in the academic track already showed higher political interest before placement.
-Track placement had no significant causal effect on political interest.
-Upper-secondary tracking seems to maintain rather than create disparities in civic dispositions.

📊 Our approach
Longitudinal German micro-data (NEPS)
Difference-in-Differences design
Multiple observations before, during, and after track placement

We investigate a question relevant for both political sociology and social stratification research:
📚 Does educational tracking—academic vs. vocational upper-secondary tracks—shape students’ political interest?

Technologically speaking, we live in an age of miracles.

In the last few years, we finally got malaria vaccines; we finally got an antiviral that prevents HIV infections with 95-100% efficacy.

But it all means nothing if people don't know it and don't use them.

The calls are available here:
Position 1 (18 months), school policies analysis:
unimi.it/it/ricerca/ric…

Position 2 (24 months), analysis of international educational datasets: unimi.it/it/ricerca/ric