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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268732
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Demographic and education effects on unemployment in Europe: economic factors and labour market institutions
Biagi, Federico; Lucifora, Claudio - 2005
We analyse the effects of demographic and education changes on unemployment rates in Europe. Using a panel of European countries for the 1980-2000 period - disaggregated by cohort, gender and education -, we empirically test the economic effects of two stylised facts that have occurred in recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267367
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Which School Systems Sort Weaker Students into Smaller Classes? International Evidence
Woessmann, Ludger; West, Martin R. - 2003
We examine whether the sorting of differently achieving students into differently sized classes results in a regressive or compensatory pattern of class sizes for a sample of national school systems. Sorting effects are identified by subtracting the causal effect of class size on performance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261900
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The Effect of Family Income During Childhood on Later-Life Attainment: Evidence from Germany
Jenkins, Stephen P.; Schluter, Christian - 2002
We examine the impact of family income during childhood on the type of secondary school that German children attend, a good indicator of their lifetime socioeconomic attainment. By contrast with several US child outcome studies, we find that late-childhood income is a more important determinant...
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The measurement of educational inequality: Achievement and opportunity
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Gignoux, Jérémie - 2011
This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. Its selection is informed by consideration of two measurement issues that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282300
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The impact of family income on child achievement: Evidence from the earned income tax credit
Dahl, Gordon B.; Lochner, Lance - 2012
Past estimates of the effect of family income on child development have often been plagued by endogeneity and measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children's math and reading achievement. Our identification derives...
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The income of the Swedish baby boomers
Flood, Lennart; Klevmarken, N. Anders; Mitrut, Andreea - 2006
suggest that we will see new and large poverty in Sweden among the very old in the future. The pension system contributes to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274479
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261944
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262141