CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Bárdits, Anna |
|---|---|
| Title | Reduced autonomy of schools and student performance |
| Summary | In my thesis I evaluate the effect of the 2013 school centralization reform in Hungary on student performance. In 2013, local decision making rights of Hungarian state schools were transferred to one government controlled central institution. The centralization did not affect schools maintained by other actors (e.g. churches and foundations), so these schools can be used as a control group to assess the effect of the policy. Using a panel dataset of schools from 2008 to 2015, I estimate that reducing school autonomy had an overall small negative effect on student achievement. Despite its declared goal of reducing inequalities between schools, the centralization did not have a more positive effect on student performance in disadvantaged schools. The effects are small and their statistical significance is sensitive to specification. |
| Supervisor | Kézdi, Gábor |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/bardits_anna.pdf |
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