to stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children …. Swedish data show that in the second half of the 20th century more skilled students increasingly enrolled in college and ended … up with more skilled partners and more skilled children. Exploiting college expansions, we find that better college …

-achieving students from more and less affluent neighborhoods. Seats are allocated based on prior achievement with 70 percent reserved for … design, we find no effect on test scores or college attendance for students from high- or low-SES neighborhoods and positive … effects on student reports of their experiences. For students from low-SES neighborhoods, we estimate significant negative …

non-cognitive skills with a novel measure of lead exposure, we follow 800,000 children from birth into adulthood. We find …

experiments to estimate the effects of universal preschool programs for children aged 0-6 years on child outcomes measured from …-to-costs ratios and find ratios clearly above one. Universal preschool tends to be more beneficial for children with low socioeconomic …

college choices. Students with high-educated parents change timing, colleges, and fields in ways that appear rational and … informed. In contrast, very talented students with low-educated parents react to higher scores by increasing overall enrolment … institutions that they could have attended even with a lower score. This suggests that students with low-educated parents face …

working while enrolled, resulting in a 14 percentage points increase in students working during the academic year. The reform …. We find that front-loading debt repayment - by increasing income-contingency or shortening the loan repayment period … - reduces debt and lowers academic capital accumulation as students finance more of the college cost by working and less by …

the academic achievement of adult education students. I analyze the spillover effects of a Swedish policy that temporarily … composition drive my findings. First, I establish that students in regions subject to larger enrollment shocks experienced …

technology in education. Many schools today provide personal computers not only to older students, but also in primary school … learning outcomes on average, but a positive effect on test scores in Swedish and English among students with highly educated … parents. Moreover, the results indicate a positive effect in Swedish in schools that received additional financial support for …