improving access to academic type education by abolishing early selection. The reform was preceded by a large-scale area based … social experiment where 25% of the country's municipalities were assigned to the reform. We use this assignment, together … with rich individual data to evaluate this major educational intervention. Our key findings are that this reform increased …

in the educational debate. These issues were the focus of a major education reform in Sweden which was implemented in the … 60s. The reform was preceded by a social experiment ub which only a proportion of municipalities received the new school … experimental period, to evaluate the impact of the reform on educational attainment and earnings. We find significant increases in …

In this paper we evaluate the impact of a major school reform, that took place in the 1950s in Sweden, on educational … attainment and earnings. The reform, which has many common elements with reforms in other European countries including the UK … non-academic streams at the age of 12 (comprehensive school reform). Our data combines survey data with administrative …

The Swedish comprehensive school reform implied an extension of the number of years of compulsory school from 7 or 8 to … study (Meghir and Palme, 2005) has shown that this reform significantly increased the number of years of schooling as well … as labor earnings of the children who went through the post reform school system, in particular for individuals …

reform firms after the reform reduced their absence by about one day. People with a high absence record tended to leave … reform firms, but these firms also became less reluctant to hire people with a record of high absence. …