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248/2024
Effekter av automatiska erbjudanden om förskoleplats på förskoledeltagande
Bakgrund och syfte
I Sverige är ungefär 5 procent av barn i åldrarna 3–5 år inte inskrivna i förskolan. Barn med utländsk bakgrund är tydligt ...
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91/2021
Evaluation of the equality grant
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 ...
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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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172/2020
Hur påverkas barn med invandrarbakgrund av att börja skolan tidigare?
Anna Hasselqvist
Barn med invandrarbakgrund presterar i genomsnitt sämre i skolan än sina klasskamrater. Vilka färdigheter som ett barn förvärvar i hemmet före skolstart skiljer sig...
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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
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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157/2018
Upper secondary education and labour market outcomes
Karin Edmark
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 up...
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55/2017
The effect of migration policies in Sweden on the integration of immigants, human capital accumulation and education decisions
Alex Solis Björn Öckert
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 amon...
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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...