Education, equality, and efficiency - An analysis of Swedish school reforms during the 1990s

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No more failures : ten steps to equity in education (2007, background): “Bjorklund et al. (2004) looked at the effect of a Swedish school reform which allowed independent schools in Stockholm to select by ability.”
Efficiency and equity of European education and training policies (2006, unknown): “Björklund et al. (2004) also suggest that there are signs that competition from privately operated schools increased segregation and dispersion of student performance in Sweden, although they also show that the association between family background and student performance did not change.”
Starting Strong II: Early Childhood Education and Care (2006, background): “Governmental control can be weakened by block grant systems (the case of Sweden) that do not earmark funds for educational purposes, leaving it to municipalities to decide what and how to fund (Bjorklund et al., 2004).”
How Equal are Educational Opportunities? Family Background and Student Achievement in Europe and the United States (2004, unknown): “This finding is in line with Björklund et al. (2004), who similarly show that the high intergenerational earnings mobility in Sweden in comparison to the United States does not seem to be related to the education system or to differences in the intergenerational transmission of quantities of educati”