The paper studies a unique education reform that decreased the length of secondary-level
vocational education from 4 to 3 years, reducing the time spent on general subjects while …

While an extensive literature investigates the effects of longer schooling, we know very little
about what happens when compulsory schooling is shortened. This paper looks at the …

Political connectedness, more precisely the conversion of political-personal relationships
into business advantages, has been a well-known and widespread phenomenon in the …

In 2013, the Hungarian government cut the school leaving age from 18 to 16. We study the
impact of this unique reform on the country's sizeable Roma minority using census data on …

NEET-rates in Hungary are not outstandingly high: for 15-24-year-olds, NEET-rates
correspond to the EU-27 average (in 2021, it was 10.6% and 10.8% for Hungary and the EU …

The purpose of this quantitative within-groups comparative study was to determine if there
was a significant difference between the 2019 (pre-COVID-19) and the 2021 (post-COVID …

The thesis focuses on the influence of friends on multiple measures of students' educational
aspirations in Hungarian primary schools before students are distributed to stratified tracks …

This report focuses on opportunities to harmonise longitudinal datasets regarding education
and educational outcomes that exist across Europe. More precisely, we mapped the …

In 2013, the Hungarian government cut the school leaving age from 18 to 16. We study the
impact of this unique reform on the country's sizeable Roma minority using census data on …

The aim of this thesis is to investigate if there is any connection between the compulsory
school leaving age decrease from 18 to 16 implemented in Hungary 2011 and peer effects …