The Roma/non-Roma test score gap in Hungary.

Autor/inn/en	Kertesi, Gábor; Kézdi, Gábor
Titel	The Roma/non-Roma test score gap in Hungary.
Quelle	Budapest: Labour Research Department, Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2010), 26 S., 168,61 KB PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Budapest working papers on the labor market. 2010,10
Sprache	englisch; ungarische Zusammenfassung
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
ISBN	978-6-15-502429-0
Schlagwörter	Bildungschance; Bildungsniveau; Ungarn; Bildungsniveau; Ethnische Gruppe; Arbeitspapier; Ethnische Gruppe; Sinti und Roma; Ungarn
Abstract	This paper documents and decomposes the test score gap between Roma and non-Roma 8th graders in Hungary in 2006. Our data connect national standardized test scores to an individual panel survey with detailed data on ethnicity and family background. The test score gap is approximately one standard deviation for both reading and mathematics, which is similar to the gap between African-American and White students of the same age group in the U.S. in the 1980s. After accounting for on health, parenting, school fixed effects and family background, the gap disappears in reading and drops to 0.15 standard deviation in mathematics. Health, parenting and schools explain most of the gap, but ethnic differences in those are almost entirely accounted for by differences in parental education and income. -- test score gap; Roma minority; Hungary.
Erfasst von	ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel
Update	2011/3