Education policy
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248/2024
The effect of automatic preschool slot offers on preschool enrolment
In the project, we evaluate a reform in Sweden introduced in 2023 that requires municipalities to offer preschool slots to 3–5-year-olds in newly-arrived immigrant families without the parents n...
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234/2022
How did remote instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic affect students’ academic performance?
Caroline Hall Annika Lindskog
Many lower secondary school students in Sweden experienced some amount of remote instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this project, we examine how the use of remote instruction affected studen...
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198/2021
Schools and students in disadvantaged areas
Magdalena Dominguez Hans Grönqvist Torsten Santavirta
This project examines how schools and students are affected when their residential area or school is included in the police’s list of disadvantaged areas. Each time this list is published, it ge...
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91/2021
Evaluation of the equality grant
The Equity grant is a compensatory government grant for organisers in Swedish compulsory school. It was introduced in 2018 and has gradually increased since then. In 2022, the grant amounted to SEK 6....
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153/2020
Educational attainment and labour market perspectives in the offspring of parents with psychiatric illness: evidence base for preventive strategies
James J. Crowley David Mataix-Cols Ashley Nordsletten Anna Sidorchuk
The aim is to explore how and to what extent parental psychiatric disorders in families where either both parents or one parent are affected by mental disorders impact their children’s education...
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119/2020
Wages and health among preschool employees
Karin Edmark
This project examines wages, health outcomes among employees in preschools – a sector that is characterised by a high proportion of female employees, relatively low wages and high sickness absen...
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25/2020
The effect of higher-stake grades on student achievement
Lucas Tilley
This project evaluates a high school admission reform in Stockholm to study whether students respond to incentives for higher grades. Prior to the reform, compulsory school graduates were allocated to...
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7/2020
An Examination of the Usability of Identification Strategies by Chetty and Hendren in a European Context
Matz Dahlberg Raoul van Maarseveen
Both policymakers and researchers are interested in understanding how geographical factors influence individuals’ life opportunities and how to best study this relationship. A key question is wh...
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212/2019
How early career choices adjust to economic crises
This project examines how economic crises affect young people’s educational and career choices, and how these decisions influence their long-term labour market outcomes. Focusing on Sweden&rsquo...
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169/2019
School autonomy and subject-specific timetables
Matthew Lindquist Karin Edmark Iman Dadgar
The purpose of the project is to investigate the effects of a decentralisation reform that gave schools more authority over how to allocate the instruction time across subjects. The reform was carried...