The paper attempts to identify causal effects of being enrolled in different educational tracks on student achievement in upper-secondary education in Hungary. Rejected and admitted students are compared who applied to the same school and performed similarly in the previous grade. Average...

Networks of formal binary neurons can be used to construct associative memory models. Given the fact that real neurons have more complex features we try to find if other cognitive functions can be modeled by adding new degrees of freedom to the formal neuron. We show that complex features can be...

Previous research provided ambiguous results on the association between average student performance and inequality of opportunity measured by the effect of family background on student achievement. In this paper we explore this association distinguishing between inequality of opportunity at the...

A duális szerkezetű (iskolai elméleti és vállalati gyakorlati) tanoncképzés nyugat- európai rendszeréről született empirikus elemzések sora megmutatta, hogy az "kisimítja" a tanulók iskolából a munkaerőpiacra való átmenetét. E tanulmány szerzője a kelet-európai szakiskolai...