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Education policy and early fertility : lessons from an expansion of upper secondary schooling
Grönqvist, Hans; Hall, Caroline King Barnard - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009408556
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Education policy and early fertility : lessons from an expansion of upper secondary schooling
Grönqvist, Hans; Hall, Caroline King Barnard - In: Economics of education review 37 (2013), pp. 13-33
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010361107
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Caroline Hall: Lessons from an expansion of upper secondary schooling
Grönqvist, Hans; Hall, Caroline - 2011
This paper studies effects of education policy on early fertility. We study a major educational reform in Sweden in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321158
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Independent schools and long-run educational outcomes : evidence from Sweden's large scale voucher reform
Böhlmark, Anders; Lindahl, Mikael - 2012
compulsory level by assessing a radical voucher reform that was implemented in Sweden in 1992. Starting from a situation where … than a marginal phenomenon in Sweden. We do not find positive effects on school expenditures. Hence, the educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009571268
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Estimating Long-Term Consequences of Teenage Childbearing - An Examination of the Siblings Approach
Holmlund, Helena - 2006
One of the remedies to selection bias in estimates of the labour market consequences of teenage motherhood has been to estimate within-family effects. A major critique, however, is that heterogeneity within the family might still bias the estimates. Using a large Swedish data set on biological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014062485
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Estimating Long-Term Consequences of Teenage Childbearing - an Examination of the Siblings Approach
Holmlund, Helena - 2005
One of the remedies to selection bias in estimates of the labour market consequences of teenage motherhood has been to estimate within-family effects. A major critique, however, is that heterogeneity within the family might still bias the estimates. Using a large Swedish data set on biological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014072505
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Graded children : evidence of longrun consequences of school grades from a nationwide reform
Sjögren, Anna - 2010
Swedish elementary school children stopped receiving written end of year report cards following a grading reform in 1982. Gradual implementation of the reform creates an opportunity to investigate the effects of being graded on adult educational attainments and earnings for children in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003971382
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Graded children : evidence of longrun consequences of school grades from a nationwide reform
Sjögren, Anna - 2010
Swedish elementary school children stopped receiving written end of year report cards following a grading reform in 1982. Gradual implementation of the reform creates an opportunity to investigate the effects of being graded on adult educational attainments and earnings for children in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003973482
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Labour supply responses to paid parental leave
Karimi, Arizo; Lindahl, Erica; Skogmann Thoursie, Peter - 2012
has remained fairly constant. In this paper we re-evaluate the labour supply responses of both mothers and fathers to … reflect actual time off from work in a system where job-protection exceeds paid leave. We find that both mothers and fathers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009669768
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Putting teenagers on the pill : the consequences of subsidized contraception
Grönqvist, Hans - 2009
This paper investigates the consequences of a series of Swedish policy changes beginning in 1989 where different regions started subsidizing the birth control pill. The reforms were significant and applied to all types of oral contraceptives. My identification strategy takes advantage of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003826801