, gender) on the achievement of eighth grade students using matched student-teacher data from the 1999, 2003 and 2007 TIMSS …

Basic Competencies" (NABC), focusing on disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged children. The instrumental variable estimates of … children who start school at the age of six. This benefit is substantially larger for disadvantaged children than their non …-disadvantaged counterparts. However, the benefit of later enrolment diminishes as children - both disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged - progress …

education and higher income. At the same time, we do not find a significant correlation between locus of control and labor …

individuals from the TÁRKI Household Monitor for the year 2007. Most of the empirical papers on the effect of income on subjective … ordered probit model we show that more flexible techniques provide a more complete picture of the income …-satisfaction relationship. In the OLS regression income has a positive impact on satisfaction, but the quantile regression models show that this …

in Hungary. The relation of segregation indices to city size and the fraction of minority students is very similar, and …

10th grade. These report cards publicize information about the students' mathematical and reading literacy skills, as … well as statistics about the school and about the parents. This paper summarizes the most important theoretical and …

-roma students had the same opportunities in their schooling career. The further scenarios measure the effects of educational policy … changes: reducing the duration of compulsory schooling; increasing the share of students in secondary vocational training …

-Roma students is almost entirely explained by social differences in income, wealth and parental education, and ethnic factors do not …This study quantifies the achievement gap between Roma and non-Roma students in Hungary and assesses the potential … magnitude is similar to the gap between African American and White students in the early 1980's. The gap between Roma and non …