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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
Contact: Anna Sjögren, Björn Öckert
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En dator per elev i mellanstadiet. Hur påverkas undervisningen och studieresultaten?
Caroline Hall martin Lundin Tove Mörtlund Kristina Sibbmark
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Vilka effekter har skolnedläggningar på mottagande skolor?
Jonas Larsson Taghizadeh
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Kulturell bakgrund och könsskillnader i studieresultat
Helena Holmlund Helmut Rainer Patrick Reich
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Effekter av en förlängd yrkesutbildning på jobbsökande via personliga kontakter
Dagmar Müller
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Läs- och skrivutvecklande undervisning i den svenska grundskolan
Helena Holmlund Josefin Häggblom Erica Lindahl
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Barn och unga under coronapandemin
Mattias Engdahl Caroline Hall Helena Holmlund Martin Lundin Hanna Mühlrad Anna Sjögren Björn Öckert
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All geared towards success? Cultural origins of gender gaps in student achievement
Helena Holmlund Helmut Rainer Patrick Reich
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Is longer education a substitute for job search through social contacts?
Dagmar Müller
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Swedish children and youth during the COVID-19 pandemic
Mattias Engdahl Caroline Hall Helena Holmlund Martin Lundin Hanna Mühlrad Anna Sjögren Björn Öckert
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A researcher’s guide to the Swedish compulsory school reform
Helena Holmlund
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Do girls choose science when exposed to female science teachers?
Aino-Maija Aalto
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Family background and the responses to higher SAT scores
Georg Graetz Oskar Nordström Skans Björn Öckert
Referral response
Kampen om tiden – mer tid till lärande (SOU 2021:30)
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Research in progress
- Social assistance and family welfare
- Measuring the effects of integration quality in pre-school using a scaffolding scale for supported learning
- Human capital effects of spending time with parents: Evidence from a Swedish childcare access reform
- Are students in receiving schools hurt by the closing of schools? Effects of school closures on receiving schools in Sweden 2000–2016
- Skills, Parental sorting, and child inequality
- Parental inputs and child outcomes: The role of more time with dad