Education policy

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

The aim of the project is to evaluate how regional differences in the access to different types of upper secondary school programmes affected wages and employment for individuals who attended upper se...

With over 16% of the population born abroad, Sweden is a very ethnically diverse country. Unfortunately, it is also a country where the immigrant-native differential in the labour market is among the ...

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 hypothesis...

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 was ass...