The Roma/non-Roma Test Score Gap in Hungary

Arbeitspapier

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.

Object Details

• ISBN: 978-615-5024-29-0
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Budapest Working Papers on the Labour Market ; No. BWP - 2010/10

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Education and Research Institutions: General ; Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
• Subject: test score gap ; Roma minority ; Hungary ; Bildungsniveau ; Bildungschancen ; Ethnische Gruppe ; Roma-Bevölkerung ; Ungarn

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Kertesi, Gábor ; Kézdi, Gábor
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics
• (where): Budapest
• (when): 2010

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/108457
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET