Education policy

In the late 1990s, the Swedish government requested the universities to cut down their pre-school teacher programmes, to avoid an over-supply of pre-school teachers. Referring to a concurrent la...

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...

I samband med att Kunskapslyftet introducerades 1997 ökade antalet studenter inom vuxenutbildning kraftigt, från cirka 100 000 platser 1996 till cirka 200 000 platser 1998. Detta medf...

Parental time investments and early childhood education are important determinants of children’s human capital development. In this paper, we study the effects of increased one-on-one time...

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. ...

Andelen unga med sjuk- och aktivitetsersättning har ökat markant i Sverige under de senaste åren. Denna utveckling kan anses problematisk, då risken för långvarigt bidragsberoende är hög bland g...

Different ways of increasing the recruitment to science and technology education have been discussed and tried out in Sweden since the 1950s. This study provides an overview of the curriculum de...

We document the achievement gap in school between immigrants and natives in Sweden. While we know that there is a substantial gap, there is still no clear evidence about the mechanisms that prod...

This project studies a new potential explanation for the growing earnings inequality that has been documented in many countries since the 1980s. We first formulate a simple skill and education m...

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...