Education policy

The project provides an overview of the extent of school closures and the use of distance learning in the Nordic countries during the COVID-19 pandemic (March 2020 to June 2021), focusing on com...

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...

The size of the monetary return to education is probably the most studied question in empirical labour market economics. The reason is that the return is considered an important financial incent...

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...

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. ...

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...