Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/108486 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
Budapest Working Papers on the Labour Market No. BWP - 2013/16
Publisher: 
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Budapest
Abstract: 
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 treatment effects on the treated are estimated with a matching method. Results indicate that higher track significantly raises student achievement. Beside the effect of tracks, the schools preferred by students within the tracks also provide better educational quality. Comparing the effects of tracks and differences within the tracks reveals that the advantage of the academic track does not differ from that of better schools in general. At the same time, the vocational track incurs substantial losses that are in part specific to that track.
Subjects: 
education
tracking
matching
equality of opportunity
JEL: 
I20
I21
I24
ISBN: 
978-615-5243-99-8
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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