CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2021
| Author | Kiss, Gergely Attila |
|---|---|
| Title | Decreasing Compulsory School Leaving Age in Hungary in 2011: Does it matter for regular students? |
| Summary | The aim of this thesis is to investigate if there is any connection between the compulsory school leaving age decrease from 18 to 16 implemented in Hungary 2011 and peer effects of low-ability students on regulars. The hypothesis is that there is a change in the behavior of the low-ability students due to the decreased age of leaving the education system. The methodology to estimate this connection is a two step procedure, the first stage is to establish that before and after time periods are significant predictors of students vanishing between 6th and 8th grade and that the peers have a possible effect on their class mates. The second stage is to estimate whether the effect of over-aged peers is significant and if there is a change in this effect by time periods. I find suggestive evidence for the underlying hypothesis implying that the implemented decrease non-directly affected regular students. |
| Supervisor | Andrea Weber, Zoltán Hermann |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2021/kiss_gergely-attila.pdf |
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