Sweden has undertaken major national reforms of its school sector which, consequently, has been classified as one of … the most decentralized ones in the OECD. This paper investigates whether school resources became more unequally … school resources differently as decentralization took place. Using municipal data the paper studies how per pupil spending …

after 1995. The main arguments against decentralization are not supported by our findings. First, school spending as well as …

Stockholm. Before 2000, students had priority to the public upper secondary school situated closest to where they lived, but … from the fall of 2000 and onwards, admission is based on grades only. The reform imposed strong incentives for school …

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 …

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. …

compulsory school reform extended basic education gradually across cohorts and municipalities, allowing for a difference …