Equality of opportunity has been one of the central ideas governing education policy in the Nordic welfare state. This …’s introduced pedagogical as well as organizational variety in the education system in Sweden. The Swedish choice reform … is unique in an international perspective, and has reshaped the education sector dramatically as a growing number of …

budget between basic and higher education. Parents can invest in supplemental private education to increase the probability … of their children of being admitted to higher education. When the level of development is low and inequality between … social classes is sufficiently large, there is low exchange social mobility in the access to higher education, and …

Using the 2013 China Education Panel Survey (CEPS), we study the impact of a 2008 inclusive education policy, through …

educational services under federal law. Civil Rights era statutes like the Equal Education Opportunities Act (EEOA) designed to … protect and promote ELLs’ right to an education have led to few actual changes in children’s education, and fewer still within … reasonable time frames. For the subset of ELLs with disabilities, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) holds …

We estimate the effects on postsecondary education outcomes of the Kalamazoo Promise, a generous place-based college …

-sex schooling, this paper addresses the dearth of the research in the context of higher education as well as the context of Muslim …-majority countries where single-sex education is prevalent. Empirical findings show that when students’ characteristics and educational …

Benjamin W. Arold prepared this study while he was working at the Center for Economics of Education at the ifo … the classroom and beyond. Chapter 2 demonstrates that the abolishment of compulsory religious education in Germany does … children and participating in the labor market. Chapter 3 provides evidence that the content of science education standards in …