Do Small Settlement Schools Provide Education of Inferior Quality? The Case of Hungary
Do Small Settlement Schools Provide Education of Inferior Quality? The Case of Hungary

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this study is to analyze the performance of small settlement primary schools and establish whether the argument that these schools are of worse quality holds at all. Using cross-sectional secondary level continuation data it seems that the size of the school and the settlement do not matter at all. Controlling for exogenous features outside the influence of the primary schools – family background, contextual effects and distance from closest secondary schools – the initial performance differences disappear. Nevertheless we cannot be lulled into complacency; we can only assert that small settlement schools are just as bad as the larger ones in compensating for initial social inequalities, but at least they do not increase the differences inherent in society. Additional policy suggestions are also offered.

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