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. …

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 …

This paper evaluates the long-term effects of class size in primary school. We use rich administrative data from Sweden … primary school (age 10 to 13) are not only beneficial for cognitive test scores at age 13 but also for non-cognitive scores at …

coedu-cational classes on the choice of school type for female students. We propose that girls are less likely to choose a … female-dominated school type at the age of 14 after spending the previous years in classes with a higher share of female … students. We address the problem of endogenous school choice by using nat-ural variation in gender composition of adjacent …

scores, a finding revealed in a natural experiment that randomly assigns school monitors. IV estimates also show that small … arise even in assessment systems with few NCLB-style accountability concerns. …

Children growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods tend to perform significantly worse in school compared to children … significant; the same applies to GPA and admission to upper secondary school. For test scores in Swedish language there is no … indication of improvement. An analysis of a survey of pupils supports the idea that the teaching as well as the classroom climate …

experiment generated by a language-in-education reform that introduced Catalan-Spanish bilingualism at school to estimate the …