CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Gyöngyösi, Győző |
|---|---|
| Title | School Consolidation and Student Performance: Evidence from Hungary |
| Summary | This paper analyzes the effect of class size and school size on student cognitive skills using the Hungarian National Assessment for Basic Competencies from 2007 to 2009. As a consequence of a policy change when the funding of primary schools changed remarkably, almost 20% of schools were consolidated or closed. This created an exogeneous increase in class size and establishment size which is expoited to measure their impact on math and reading test scores. The effect is negative on math score, increasing the class size by 1 reduces the students’ test score by .01-.03 standard deviation but there is no effect on reading score. The effect of establishment size is mostly insignificant both for math and reading. |
| Supervisor | Koren, Miklos |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/gyongyosi_gyozo.pdf |
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