school resources differently as decentralization took place. Using municipal data the paper studies how per pupil spending …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 …

after 1995. The main arguments against decentralization are not supported by our findings. First, school spending as well as … and structural characteristics affected local schooling resources as decentralization took place. We use municipal data … for the period 1989–95 which covers the key reform years without confounding decentralization with institutional changes …

The effect of a general school choice reform on student performance is studied in a Swedish institutional setting. A … relevant variables. Increased school competition is shown to have statistically significant positive effects on student … performance in mathematics, but no significant effects in English and Swedish. Interacting school competition with student …

This paper studies the effects of school organisation on short- and long-run pupil outcomes, exploiting a policy change … that reorganised Swedish middle school education. The reorganisation induced pupils to remain in small local schools … qualifications. Despite that the previous literature has found that school transitions and school size are important inputs in the …

early and late school years are the most decisive for cognitive skill development. Exploiting unique survey data on the use …

secondary school. We link detailed register data on around 250,000 students to local levels of access to optic fiber broadband …