school attended in grades 3 and 6, respectively. Consistent with recent evidence from other settings, we find that students … confirm that these achievement drops occur in non-urban areas and persist through grade 10, by which time most students have … students' performance trajectories …

increase in the share of independent-school students between Swedish municipalities. We find that an increase in the share of … independent-school students improves average performance at the end of compulsory school as well as long-run educational outcomes … primarily are due to external effects (e.g., school competition), and not that independent-school students gain significantly …

We study the political determination of the proportion of students attending university when access to higher education … and child's ability leads to a larger university populated by a larger fraction of rich students, in line with the so …

This study analyses whether the Swedish school choice reform, enacted in 1992, had different effects on students from … different socio-economic backgrounds. We use detailed geographical data on students' and schools' locations to construct … anything, effects tend to be slightly more positive for disadvantaged groups, such as students from low-income families. Taken …

they submit their preferences. Moreover, the mechanism creates artificial social segregation at the cost of the …

school attributes seem to matter? Do selective schools con-tribute to their students' success, or is their performance … attributable to the higher ability of the students they accept? By taking a structural approach we answer all these questions in … one go. We find that students seem to infer quality from past performance in the University entrance exam. There also …