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The paper uses data from a large representative survey of Hungarian higher education graduates (DPR 2010) to study the early labour market effects of field of study and college quality. Propensity score matching average treatment effect method is used to reveal the effect of the field of study,...
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The paper looks at school segregation in Hungary by ethnicity (Roma versus non-Roma) and social disadvantage. We use … comprehensive data from the National Assessment of Basic Competences from 2006. School segregation is measured at various levesl: by … comprehensive nature. Comparsons to the racial and ethnic segregation of the U.S. school system reveals lower segregation on average …
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of primary school children (grades 1 through 8) in 45 schools in Hungary. The goal of the program was to compensate for …
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By making use of Duncan & Hoffman's empirical model, the economic returns to overeducation and undereducation are estimated using comparable microdata from the middle of the 2000s for 25 European countries. The estimates confirm some of the main results found in the literature. The wage premium...
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This paper estimates the effect of school starting age on academic performance using the 2006 "National Assessment of … the school starting age imply that those who start school at the age of seven do better on competency tests than those … children who start school at the age of six. This benefit is substantially larger for disadvantaged children than their non …
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The paper uses data from a large representative survey of Hungarian higher education graduates (DPR 2010) to study the early labour market effects of field of study and college quality. Propensity score matching average treatment effect method is used to reveal the effect of the field of study,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494702
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