In this paper we explore the composition of students, the study length towards diploma, and examine the likelihood of … diploma, all with respect to parenthood. Few get children while enrolled in higher education, nevertheless one fourth of … female university students in Sweden has children. In Sweden as in many other countries enrollment periods have been …

paper, we estimate the effect of attending an MA-class during grades 4-6 on students' cognitive skills. Using a unique … survey with information on students, parents and teachers, we are able to control for many factors that could otherwise bias …

the compulsory school, preschool class and the recreation centre, Lgr 11. The purpose of the evaluation project is to …

This paper studies efficiency in the provision of public education by local authorities using Data Envelopment Analysis … (DEA). Viewing education as a multilevel production process the models control for differences at other levels. Most … important is the students' socioeconomic backgound and a number of alternative ways of modelling this are proposed. Mean …

governance models. We find that students enrolled in chains have higher test scores at the end of their primary school education … impact of the two different models of school governance on students' achievement. We exploit an instrumental variable … strategy that compares the educational attainment of students before school conversion with that of students after conversion …

This study investigates the importance of gender and ethnic interactions among teachers and students for school … performance in Swedish, English and Mathematics. School leaving certificates assigned by the teacher is compared with results on … comprehensive national tests. The analysis is based on data on grade 9 students (age 16) from Sweden. I find that a student is …

In Sweden, children typically start compulsary school the year they turn seven. Individuals born just before or just … after the new year, have about the same date of birth but start school att different ages. We exploit this source of … exogenous variation, to identify the effects of age at school entry on school and labor market outcomes. Using data for the …

of grade 9 students (16 years old). I examine whether there are systematic differences correlated with gender and ethnic … background. That is, if the relationship between school leaving certificates and national test results differs between girls and … compared to test results in all three subjects studied. Non-native students are more generously rewarded in teachers …

Swedish elementary school children stopped receiving written end of year report cards following a grading reform in … getting grades increases the probability of high school graduation for boys and girls with compulsory school educated parents … elementary school. …

-cognitive ability distributions using school grades and draft records from Swedish registers. The impact on student achievement caused …­ever, social interactive ability turns out to be important for low aptitude students, whilst the reverse holds for cognitive … abilities. In fact, while high performing students benefit from high cognitive teachers, being matched to such a teacher can …