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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 … statistically significant effect on men's fertility decisions. Our results suggest that the social benefits of changes in education …

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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...

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Parental leave, (in)formal childcare and long-term child outcomes

Danzer, Natalia; Halla, Martin; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - 2017

provided by mothers (or formal institutions) is superior to informal care-arrangements. …

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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 …

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School choice and student achievement: New evidence on open-enrolment

Söderström, Martin - 2006

This paper studies the effects of open-enrolment on student performance in the context of an admission reform in Stockholm. Before 2000, students had priority to the public upper secondary school situated closest to where they lived, but from the fall of 2000 and onwards, admission is based on...

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Integrated public education, fertility and human capital

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2011

multicultural public schools to private education increases private educational expenditures and, as a result, decreases fertility …

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Education and equality of opportunity: What have we learned from educational reforms?

Holmlund, Helena - 2016

's introduced pedagogical as well as organizational variety in the education system in Sweden. The Swedish choice reform …

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Mothers' income recovery after childbearing

Angelov, Nikolay; Karimi, Arizo - 2012

This paper examines the time profile of the effect of fertility on female labour earnings with respect to time since … birth. To address endogeneity of fertility to labour income, we use the same-sex instrument (Angrist and Evans, 1998) in a … novel way on a panel data set to uncover the time profile of the fertility effect. Our OLS estimates suggest that the …

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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...

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Labour supply responses to paid parental leave

Karimi, Arizo; Lindahl, Erica; Skogman 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 …

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