Education policy

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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...