This paper evaluates the long-term effects of class size in primary school. We use rich administrative data from Sweden … primary school (age 10 to 13) are not only beneficial for cognitive test scores at age 13 but also for non-cognitive scores at …

Swedish elementary school children stopped receiving written end of year report cards following a grading reform in … getting grades increases the probability of high school graduation for boys and girls with compulsory school educated parents … elementary school. …

In Sweden, children typically start compulsary school the year they turn seven. Individuals born just before or just … after the new year, have about the same date of birth but start school att different ages. We exploit this source of … exogenous variation, to identify the effects of age at school entry on school and labor market outcomes. Using data for the …

This paper studies the effects of school choice on segregation. We analyze the effect of a reform in Stockholm that … changed the admission system of public upper secondary schools. Before the year 2000, students had priority to the school … the distribution of students over schools changed dramatically as a response to extending school choice. As expected, the …

education and school outcomes. …

educational content, I exploit a reform in Sweden in the 1990s which prolonged vocational programs in upper secondary school and … with low GPAs from compulsory school, attending a pilot program seems instead to have led to an increased risk of …

-time studies at the upper secondary school level. This study provides an empirical assessment of the relative earnings impact of …