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Intergenerational Effects in Sweden : What Can We Learn from Adoption Data?

Lindahl, Mikael; Björklund, Anders; Plug, Erik - 2004

We explore the adoption data approach to estimating causal effects of parental education and income on the same outcomes of their children. Thanks to a data set drawn from Swedish population registers with detailed information on biological background and history of adoptees, we can test basic...

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Family Structure and Child Outcomes in the United States and Sweden

Björklund, Anders; Ginther, Donna K.; Sundström, Marianne - 2004

children reared in two-parent families. Evidence from the United States and Sweden indicates that living in a non-intact family … children?s outcomes in terms of educational attainment and earnings using data from Sweden and the United States. Comparing the … United States and Sweden is interesting because both family structure and public policy environments in the two countries …

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How Different Are Immigrants? : A Cross-Country and Cross-Survey Analysis of Educational Achievement

Schnepf, Sylke Viola - 2004

population of immigrant pupils: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and …

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Parental Separation and Children's Educational Attainment: A Siblings Approach

Björklund, Anders; Sundström, Marianne - 2002

This article analyzes whether the commonly found negative relationship between parental separation in childhood and educational outcomes is causal or mainly due to selection. We use data on about 100,000 Swedish full biological siblings, born in 1951-64, and perform cross-section and...

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Home versus School Learning: A New Approach to Estimating the Effect of Class Size on Achievement

Lindahl, Mikael - 2001

I estimate the effect of class size on scholastic achievement using that schools are only in session during the school year and out of session during the summer. This seasonal feature of the schooling system makes it possible to control for unobservable pupil characteristics affecting both the...

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Summer Learning and the Effect of Schooling: Evidence from Sweden

Lindahl, Mikael - 2001

Using that schools are in session during the school year and out of session during the summer, it is possible to isolate the effect of schooling on learning. This natural experiment situation can also be used to see whether schooling compensates for disadvantageous social backgrounds. Using a...

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The origins of intergenerational associations: lessons from Swedish adoption data

Björklund, Anders; Lindahl, Mikael; Plug, Erik - 2005

We use unique Swedish data to estimate intergenerational associations between adoptees and their biological and adoptive parents. We argue that the impact from biological parents captures broad pre-birth factors, including genes and prenatal environment, and the impact from adoptive parents...

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Acculturation identity and educational attainment

Nekby, Lena; Rödin, Magnus; Özcan, Gülay - 2007

This paper explores the identity formation of a cohort of students with immigrant backgrounds in Sweden and the … achievement, among immigrants in Sweden. …

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The impact of school choice on pupil achievement, segregation and costs: Swedish evidence

Böhlmark, Anders; Lindahl, Mikael - 2007

This paper evaluates school choice at the compulsory-school level by assessing a reform implemented in Sweden in 1992 …

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Does school privatization improve educational achievement? Evidence from Sweden's voucher reform

Böhlmark, Anders; Lindahl, Mikael - 2008

nine-year school level by assessing a radical voucher reform that was implemented in Sweden in 1992. Starting from a …

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