CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2025
| Author | Elemanov, Aman |
|---|---|
| Title | Employment Consequences of School-Exit Multiple Choice Examination in the Kyrgyz Republic |
| Summary | The issues related to school education are particularly relevant for Kyrgyzstan as the country implements a series of reforms in this sphere. In this study, I examine the causal effect of participation in the school-exit National Unified Testing (NUT) on employment outcomes in the Kyrgyz Republic. I exploit the 2013 policy change that removed the Uzbek language option from the NUT as a source of exogenous variation in the test participation. Using a Difference-in-Differences (DiD) framework and survey data, I find that non-participation in the exam increases employment, especially in the agricultural sector. Specifically, non-participation in the test raises the probability of being employed by 21.6 percentage points and employment in agriculture by 20.8 percentage points. My results are statistically significant and robust across all model specifications. These findings suggest investing in agricultural vocational schools for students who do not take the NUT and improving access to tertiary education based on the principle of equality of opportunity for those pursuing higher education. |
| Supervisor | Molnár, Tímea Laura |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2025/elemanov_aman.pdf |
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