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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 situation where the public schools essentially were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268732
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The causal effect of parent's schooling on children's schooling : a comparison of estimation methods
Holmlund, Helena (contributor); Lindahl, Mikael (contributor) - 2008
Recent studies that aim to estimate the causal link between the education of parents and their children provide … quality of each identification procedure; and (iii) get at better perspective about intergenerational effects of education. We …. Our findings therefore indicate that the estimated impact of parental education on that of their child in Sweden does …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003753610
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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 situation where the public schools essentially were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755556
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Intergenerational effects in Sweden : what can we learn from adoption data?
Björklund, Anders (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002120353
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The impact of school choice on pupil achievement, segregation and costs : Swedish evidence
Böhlmark, Anders (contributor); Lindahl, Mikael (contributor) - 2007
This paper evaluates school choice at the compulsory-school level by assessing a reform implemented in Sweden in 1992, which opened up for publicly funded but privately operated schools. In many local school markets, this reform led to a significant increase in the quantity of such schools as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003594439
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The effect of extra funding for disadvantaged pupils on achievement
Leuven, Edwin; Lindahl, Mikael; Oosterbeek, Hessel; … - In: The review of economics and statistics 89 (2007) 4, pp. 721-736
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003567169
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Education and economic development : what does empirical research show about causal relationships?
Björklund, Anders; Lindahl, Mikael - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003395185
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Independent schools and long-run educational outcomes : evidence from Sweden's large scale voucher reform
Böhlmark, Anders; Lindahl, Mikael - 2012
This paper evaluates average educational performance effects of an expanding independent school sector at the compulsory level by assessing a radical voucher reform that was implemented in Sweden in 1992. Starting from a situation where all public schools were essentially local monopolists, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009571268
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The impact of an unexpected wage cut on corruption : evidence from a "xeroxed" exam
Borcan, Oana; Lindahl, Mikael; Mitrut, Andreea - 2012
identify the causal impact of a wage loss on the prevalence of corruption in the education sector. Specifically, we exploit the … unexpected wage cut in May 2010 that affected all Romanian public sector employees, including the public education staff, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009549671
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The intergenerational persistence of human capital : an empirical analysis of four generations
Lindahl, Mikael; Palme, Mårten; Sandgren Massih, Sofia; … - 2012
results suggest a small or no causal effect of parental education on children's educational attainment. -- Intergenerational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009550720