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Does school privatization improve educational achievement? : evidence from Sweden's voucher reform
Böhlmark, Anders (contributor); Lindahl, Mikael (contributor) - 2008
This paper evaluates general achievement effects of choice and competition between private and public schools at the … nine-year school level by assessing a radical voucher reform that was implemented in Sweden in 1992. Starting from a … small to yield lasting positive effects. -- Private schooling ; choice ; competition ; educational achievement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755556
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Does school privatization improve educational achievement? Evidence from Sweden's voucher reform
Böhlmark, Anders; Lindahl, Mikael - 2008
This paper evaluates general achievement effects of choice and competition between private and public schools at the … nine-year school level by assessing a radical voucher reform that was implemented in Sweden in 1992. Starting from a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268732
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Education for growth in Sweden and the world
Krueger, Alan B.; Lindahl, Mikael - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001392011
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Parental influences on health and longevity : lessons from a large sample of adoptees
Lindahl, Mikael; Lundberg, Evelina; Palme, Mårten; … - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435955
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Intergenerational wealth mobility and the role of inheritance : evidence from multiple generations
Adermon, Adrian; Lindahl, Mikael; Waldenström, Daniel - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011542111
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Intergenerational wealth mobility and the role of inheritance : evidence from multiple generations
Adermon, Adrian; Lindahl, Mikael; Waldenström, Daniel - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011544609
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Intergenerational wealth mobility and the role of inheritance : evidence from multiple generations
Adermon, Adrian; Lindahl, Mikael; Waldenström, Daniel - 2016
This study estimates intergenerational correlations in mid-life wealth across three generations, and a young fourth generation, and examines how much of the parent-child association that can be explained by inheritances. Using a Swedish data set we find parent-child rank correlations of 0.3-0.4...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521103
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Parental influences on health and longevity : lessons from a large sample of adoptees
Lindahl, Mikael; Lundberg, Evelina; Palme, Mårten; … - 2016
To what extent is the length of our lives determined by pre-birth factors? And to what extent is it affected by parental resources during our upbringing that can be influenced by public policy? We study the formation of adult health and mortality using data on about 21,000 adoptees born between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450717
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Dynastic human capital, inequality and intergenerational mobility
Adermon, Adrian; Lindahl, Mikael; Palme, Mårten - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011993118
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Dynastic human capital, inequality and intergenerational mobility
Adermon, Adrian; Lindahl, Mikael; Palme, Mårten - 2019
We study the importance of the extended family - the dynasty - for the persistence in inequality across generations. We use data including the entire Swedish population, linking four generations. This data structure enables us to identify parents' siblings and cousins, their spouses, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012001644