the communist years, widened again after the collapse of the communist system in Hungary. Using Hungarian Roma data from … (necessary for college entrance). Our results indicate that long-term poverty of the Roma is strongly associated with their high … drop-out rate after 8th grade. Roma poverty has increased considerably with the massive layoffs of unskilled workers since …

ROMA are the main poverty risk groups in many of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. However, information on …. The survey is the first of its kind which addresses the ethnic dimension of poverty across countries, covering Roma in … Hungary, Bulgaria, and Romania. The paper finds that welfare among Roma households is significantly lower than that of non-Roma …

This paper uses birth records linked to census data to document health differences at birth between Roma and non-Roma … attainment, especially at higher levels, may have the highest potential to improve the relative health of Roma births. … children in Hungary between 1981 and 2010. It focuses on differences in average birth weight and average gestational age, as …

is examined in the setting of Slovak Roma, who are poor in comparison to the non-Roma population. The results suggest … that the correlation between income and satisfaction is greater for the lower-income group (the Roma) than for the higher …

a representative panel survey of adolescents in Hungary we test the hypothesis that poverty shapes how adolescents …This paper reports the findings from an analysis of the ethnic identification choices of adolescents in Hungary. Using … identify and conditions the transmission of identification in families. Our results indicate that Roma identification is part …