Education policy

The Equity grant is a compensatory government grant for organisers in Swedish compulsory school. It was introduced in 2018 and has gradually increased since then. In 2022, the grant amounted to ...

The project investigates how the expansion of upper secondary voucher schools during the 1990s and 2000s affected students’ educational trajectory and later outcomes. In a first step, it e...

Barn med invandrarbakgrund presterar i genomsnitt sämre i skolan än sina klasskamrater. Vilka färdigheter som ett barn förvärvar i hemmet före skolstart skiljer sig...

The aim is to explore how and to what extent parental psychiatric disorders in families where either both parents or one parent are affected by mental disorders impact their children’s edu...

This project evaluates a high school admission reform in Stockholm to study whether students respond to incentives for higher grades. Prior to the reform, compulsory school graduates were alloca...

The purpose of the project is to investigate the effects of a decentralisation reform that gave schools more authority over how to allocate the instruction time across subjects. The reform was c...

The aim of the project is to evaluate how regional differences in the access to different types of upper secondary school programmes affected wages and employment for individuals who attended up...

With over 16% of the population born abroad, Sweden is a very ethnically diverse country. Unfortunately, it is also a country where the immigrant-native differential in the labour market is amon...

This paper investigates the effect of the academic ordinal rank position of Swedish grade 9 students relative to their school peers on future educational achievement and adult earnings. The hypo...

In 2015, Sweden accommodated an unprecedented number of refugees and more refugee children than ever before were received in Swedish schools. In 2016, the Swedish National Agency for Education w...