This paper examines the effects of increasing the compulsory school leaving (CSL) age from 16 to 18 in Hungary using a … of elementary school in 1998. Identification is based on compliance with the age of elementary school start rule …. Compliance with the age rule creates a discontinuity in the probability of starting school under the higher CSL age regime around …

We estimate preferences for school tracks in upper secondary education in Hungary. We consider travel time, school SES … composition, school level (in terms of peer quality) and school quality (in terms of added value). We find that students have … stronger preferences for school SES composition and school level, rather than school quality (which may be harder to observe …

data that matches high school preferences of the population of urban middle school graduates in one Chinese prefecture in … 2010 with high school student records. The standard admission channel is generally driven by merit subject to only nominal … announced school-specific admission thresholds in the city-wide High School Entrance Exam (HSEE) scores. Multiple-cutoff RDD …