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The effect of education policy on crime: An intergenerational perspective

Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten; Schnabel, Marieke - 2011

as labor earnings of the children who went through the post reform school system, in particular for individuals … the generation directly affected by the reform as well as their children. We use census data on all born in Sweden between … 1945 and 1955 and all their children merged with individual register data on all convictions between 1981 and 2008. We find …

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Ability, parental background and education policy: Empirical evidence from a social experiment

Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten - 2003

Following the great expansion of secondary education in the United States between 1910 and 1940, Sweden was one of the first Western European countries to attempt such an expansion by increasing the years of compulsory schooling and and improving access to academic type education by abolishing...

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The effect of a social experiment in education

Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten - 2001

The impact of compulsory schooling laws as well as the abolition of early selection by ability reamin important issues in the educational debate. These issues were the focus of a major education reform in Sweden which was implemented in the 60s. The reform was preceded by a social experiment ub...

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Educational reform, ability and family background

Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten - 2004

sources. We find that the reform increased both the educational attainment and the earnings of children whose fathers had just … complusory education. However the earnings of those with educated parents declined - possibly because of a dilution of quality at …

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