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Education is a central feature in the lives of children, youths and many adults – from preschool to higher education and adult education. The costs for education are primarily costs for personnel and premises. For older students, education also means loss of income. Incomes are created if the education provides knowledge and skills that are valued on the labour market and by society as a whole.
Within research on the economics of education, we study how different investments in education affect people’s welfare, their success on the labour market and society as a whole. It might take some time before it is possible to evaluate the labour market effects of individual measures since the individuals must first complete their education and then enter the labour market. Thus, it is common for research to study factors that experience shows to be connected to success on the labour market, for example grades and exam results or measures of motivation, endurance and discipline.
We study how individuals’ skills, welfare and their situation on the labour market are affected by:
-time period in education, field of study and the organiser of the education
-resources in the educational system
-how the education is organised
-family background and incentives for education
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Covid-19 och distansundervisning i Norden
Caroline Hall Inés Hardoy Martin Lundin
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Perspektiv på konsumtionsbeskattning
Spencer Bastani
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Familjebakgrund och familjebildning. Grundskolereformens betydelse för äktenskapssortering.
Helena Holmlund
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Studiebidrag i stället för lån? Effekten av rekryteringsbidraget för studiedeltagande och arbetsmarknadsutfall
Gunnar Brandén
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Vad förväntar sig gymnasieelever om avkastningen på högre utbildning?
Nikolay Angelov Per Johansson Mikael Lindahl Ariel Pihl
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Hur påverkas barns utveckling av mer egentid med en förälder
Anna Sjögren Malin Tallås Ahlzén
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Schooling in the Nordic countries during the COVID-19 pandemic
Caroline Hall Inés Hardoy Martin Lundin
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Preferences and opportunities in the marriage market. How comprehensive schooling made the wealthy marry down.
Helena Holmlund
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Replacing student grants with loans. Evidence from a Swedish policy reform.
Gunnar Brandén
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Earnings expectations and educational sorting. An ex-ante perspective on returns to university education
Nikolay Angelov Per Johansson Mikael Lindahl Ariel Pihl
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Learning-by-doing and productivity growth among high-skilled workers: evidence from the treatment of heart attacks
Stefan James Bo Lagerqvist Petter Lundborg Johan Vikström
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Human capital effects of one-on-one time with parents. Evidence from a Swedish childcare access reform
Anna Sjögren Malin Tallås Ahlzén
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Heterogenous impacts of adverse labour market shocks
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Inheritance of fields of study
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The social mobility of refugee children
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Income expectations and selection to higher education
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Social assistance and family welfare
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Measuring the effects of integration quality in pre-school using a scaffolding scale for supported learning