The Market Comes to Education in Sweden: An Evaluation of Sweden's Surprising School Reforms

By Anders Björklund, M. Clark, P. Edin, Peter Fredricksson, Alan B. Krueger. 2006

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Wage Dispersion between and within Plants: Sweden 1985-2000 (2007, unknown): “Between 1970 and 2000, the fraction of the population with upper-secondary education increased from 30 to 50 percent, and the fraction with tertiary education from 7 to 30 percent (Björklund et al. 2005). Has there also been an increase in the dispersion of education? If so, the Kremer and Maskin (1”
The Long-Term Consequences of Teacher Discretion in Grading of High-Stakes Tests (2016, background): “…of a range of school policies, including school desegregation (Billings et al., 2014); school choice (Ahlin, 2003; Sandström and Bergström, 2005; Björklund et al., 2006; Lavy, 2010; Deming et al., 2014; Edmark et al., 2014; Lavy, 2015); preschool programs (Garces et al., 2002); class size…”
Independent Schools and Long-Run Educational Outcomes - Evidence from Sweden's Large Scale Voucher Reform (2015, unknown): “…these positive effects are primarily due to spillover or competition effects and not that independent-school students gain significantly more 43 Björklund et al. (2005) estimate the relationship between the change in total school costs per student and the change in private school share in…”
Long-Term Effects of Class Size (2013, unknown): “From 1993 onwards compulsory schools are funded by the municipalities; see Björklund et al. (2005) for a description of the Swedish schooling system after decentralization. Du Rietz et al. (1987) contains an excellent description of the school system prior to decentralization, on which we base this ”
Peers, Neighborhoods and Immigrant Student Achievement: Evidence from a Placement Policy (2009, background): “3 See Bygren and Szulkin (2010) for a related study sing Swedish data.”
School Vouchers: A Survey of the Economics Literature (2017, unknown): “For instance, Sandstrom and Bergstrom (2005) report that independent-school students are more likely to be immigrants and to have parents with higher income and education (see also Bjorklund et al. 2006).”
A Review of the Literature on Socioeconomic Status and Educational Achievement (2019, background): “The previously centralized Swedish school system has been thoroughly transformed into a highly decentralized and deregulated one, with a growing number of independent schools and parental autonomy in school choice (Björklund et al. 2005).”
The Impact of School Choice on Pupil Achievement, Segregation and Costs: Swedish Evidence (2007, unknown): “This is also the definition used in Björklund et al. (2005).”