study the effect of introducing earlier grades in compulsory school on child mental health in Sweden. To do so, we exploit a … grade as was previously the case. The reform provides a situation where the age at which children receive their first grade … year earlier grades are more likely to be diagnosed with depression or anxiety by the end of compulsory school, controlling …

data for individuals graduating from upper secondary school in the years 2001-2004. Grading bias, which we interpret as … over-grading, is constructed as the residual of final upper secondary school grades having controlled for results in a … standardised test, itself not subject to grading leniency. Over-grading is further isolated by considering only within-school …

the compulsory school, preschool class and the recreation centre, Lgr 11. The purpose of the evaluation project is to …

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 …

sanctions cause a short-run deterioration of mental health, possibly due higher stress levels, but this tapers out quickly. …