Education and allocation of skills in Tunisia: evidence from an education reform

IZA Journal of Labor & Development

Table 6 Diplomas obtained by nearby exposed and unexposed cohorts

	High promotion	Low promotion	Difference	P-value difference
Vocational training	0.050	0.055	-0.005	0.021
Diploma beforecompleted secondary	0.039	0.035	0.004	0.017
Secondary school only	0.039	0.029	0.010	0.000
University BA/MA	0.074	0.053	0.021	0.000
PhD	0.004	0.004	0.001	0.178
Other diplomas	0.028	0.032	-0.004	0.008

Low promotion cohorts are those born in 1959 and 1964, the first and last to be fully exposed to the reduction in promotion rates into secondary school. High promotion cohorts are those born in 1954 and 1968, the cohorts closest to the above fully unexposed to the reduction in promotion rates.