the probability of attending school and decrease the probability of combining work and school, particularly for boys; the … probability of being in school for secondary school children was about 6 percent higher in 2002 than in 1998. These estimates … account for the fact that a new Federal Education Law (FEL) in 1996 extended mandatory education to 10 years. Differences …

the compulsory school, preschool class and the recreation centre, Lgr 11. The purpose of the evaluation project is to … change in educational institutions. The evaluation is using a mixed-methods design combining a discourse analysis of key …

smaller countries that were historically backward and developed a different set of political and economic institutions during … political institutions for the long-run evolution of wealth-income ratios. …

Early states like China, India, Italy and Greece have been experiencing more rapid economic growth in recent decades …

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 …

levels in Latin America. Low levels of education continue to be singled out as the main obstacle to higher productivity in … the region. We examine the scope for education to lift labor incomes above poverty levels in Latin America and find that … in many countries education, by itself, has a positive, but limited, potential to increase wages above a minimum level …

This paper studies efficiency in the provision of public education by local authorities using Data Envelopment Analysis … (DEA). Viewing education as a multilevel production process the models control for differences at other levels. Most …

-year comprehensive school and significantly reduced the degree of heterogeneity in the Finnish primary and secondary education. We …This paper estimates the effect of a major education reform on the intergenerational income mobility in Finland. The … Finnish comprehensive school reform of 1972-1977 replaced the old two-track school system with a uniform nine …