CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Kiss, Gábor |
|---|---|
| Title | Estimating the Effect of Class Size on Student Achievement: The Case of Hungary |
| Summary | This thesis seeks to estimate the effect of class size on the achievement of students on the National Assessment of Basic Competences, a yearly administered standardized test in mathematics and reading comprehension. The analysis is based on the 6th and 8th grade test scores of the cohort of students who were 6th graders in 2011. The difficulties of the estimation stem from the endogenous relationship between enrollment and achievement: students enroll in classes based on their observable and unobservable characteristics and the interplay of the objectives of parents and the school management. I attempt to measure the effects by utilizing the panel nature of the dataset and two sources of supposedly exogenous variation in class size: 1) the maximum class size rule in force, and 2) the closure of schools in the school year of 2011/2012, and the fact that the re-enrollment of students in other schools is also regulated by the law on public education. I argue that none of these methods rule out the endogeneity issue. The 2SLS estimates do not yield statistically significant coefficient estimates, while the first differenced regressions show small negative effects. |
| Supervisor | Kőrösi Gábor |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/kiss_gabor.pdf |
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