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218/2020
Inheritance of fields of study
Adam Altmejd
This project is about how university fields of study are inherited across generations. In Sweden, children are three times as likely to graduate from the field that their parent studied. But thi...
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190/2020
How were students affected by the expansion of upper secondary voucher schools?
Karin Edmark Carla Haelermans Iftikhar Hussain
The project investigates how the expansion of upper secondary voucher schools during the 1990s and 2000s affected students’ educational trajectory and later outcomes. In a first step, it e...
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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 edu...
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25/2020
The effect of higher-stake grades on student achievement
Helena Holmlund 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 alloca...
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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 c...
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151/2018
The social mobility of refugee children
Sweden saw an unprecedented wave of migration following the wars in former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. This project follows the children of this refugee group, for up to 25 years. We study ed...
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169/2017
Measuring the effects of integration quality in pre-school using a scaffolding scale for supported learning
Ida Bertell Sofia Frankenberg
The objective of this study is to develop a scaffolding scale to study the importance of interaction quality in terms of supported learning between teachers and children in pre-school. ...
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255/2016
The effect of ordinal rank i school on educational achievement and income in Sweden
Iman Dadgar Karin Edmark
This paper investigates the effect of the academic ordinal rank position of Swedish grade 9 students relative to their school peers on future educational achievement and adult earnings. The hypo...
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220/2016
The effects of targeted interventions to support refugee pupils
In 2015, Sweden accommodated an unprecedented number of refugees and more refugee children than ever before were received in Swedish schools. In 2016, the Swedish National Agency for Education w...
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187/2015
Kan utbildning kompensera för andra miljökomponenter?
I mitten av 90-talet reformerades den svenska gymnasieskolan från ett linje- till programgymnasium. Reformen innebar bland annat en förlängning av tvååriga utbildningar till tre år, samt ett mer...