CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Hegyesi, Zsolt |
|---|---|
| Title | The Effect of Church Management of Schools on Student Progress: Evidence from Hungary |
| Summary | This thesis considers the effect of church management on previously state-run primary schools in Hungary. As an effort to increase denominational presence, almost 200 schools were taken over by a church in the course of a few years in the 2010s. I analyze the impact of this treatment on students’ progress on standardized reading comprehension and mathematics tests between 6th and 8th grade. I employ fixed effects regression and propensity score matching. I find an effect of around 0.05 standard deviation units, which is quite robust to specification. The effect does not seem to last until 10th grade. Furthermore, multinomial regression analysis shows that those exposed to treatment are likelier to get accepted into better secondary schools. |
| Supervisor | Lychagin, Sergey |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/hegyesi_zsolt.pdf |
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