We analyse full-time monthly wages of employees with parents born in Sweden and of childhood immigrants who arrived …

educational choices for a sample of highschool students in Stockholm. We find average ex-ante returns to university to be 36 … students sort into education based on their comparative advantage. Nevertheless, our results suggest that an OLS estimator of …

income than labor earnings. The difference is almost a factor of three and remains substantial even after controlling for … with wealth returns. Our results provide new insights into why inequality in capital income is greater than in labor income …

This paper studies optimal taxation of income and education when employers cannot observe workers' productivity and …. Implementation through income and education dependent taxes is discussed, as well as education mandates. A key insight is that … achieving predistribution requires complementing the income tax with additional policy instruments that regulate the flow of …

Although reading is a fundamental skill, many students leave school without being proficient readers. We examine a … literacy program targeting students most at-risk of reading difficulties in kindergarten and first grade. The program includes …-to-two tutoring setting. Using a randomized field experiment with 161 students in 12 Swedish schools, we find large positive effects …

preferences in examination behavior. Students have the possibility of attaining a seminar bonus on the final exam for near … initial quizzes can either be accepted as is, or students can attempt to improve their marks by answering similar quiz … questions on the exam. Results suggest that female students are more likely to take initial quizzes and receive a seminar bonus …