This paper evaluates average educational performance effects of an expanding independent- school sector at the … increase in the share of independent-school students between Swedish municipalities. We find that an increase in the share of … independent-school students improves average performance at the end of compulsory school as well as long-run educational outcomes …

In the Austrian (as well as the German) education system students have to choose between different school tracks at the …

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 …

Sweden has a school voucher system with universal coverage and full acceptance of corporate providers. Using a value … students, the voucher school impact is around zero. Comparing internal and external evaluations of the same standardized tests …

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 …

Empirical evidence suggests that relative age, which is determined by date of birth and the school entry cutoff date … analyze whether the initial assignment to different school tracks has persistent effects on educational attainment and … earnings in the first years of the career. I estimate the reduced-form effect of the school entry law on starting wages and …

The Finnish comprehensive school reform replaced the old two-track school system with a uniform nine-year comprehensive … school and significantly reduced the degree of heterogeneity in the Finnish primary and secondary education. We estimate the …

school-grades with a higher share of migrant students, while natives are not affected on average. These negative spill …

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 …