Summary
In 2012 public education in Hungary was reorganised into a centralised system, with the explicit goal of decreasing inequalities between schools. This provides a rare opportunity to analyse the effect of centralisation on the effectiveness, efficiency and equity of schooling by comparing school and student performance before and after the reform Comparing the efficiency of various school types before and after the reform will also allow understanding the potential heterogeneous effects of the reform.
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