Educational Reform, Ability, and Family Background

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No more failures : ten steps to equity in education (2007, background): “There are also experiences where individual school systems have abolished early tracking: • Meghir and Palme (2005) showed that Swedish reform in the 1950s, which replaced tracking at age 12 with a comprehensive system, increased attainment overall and helped equity by generating particularly sharp…”
Widening participation in higher education: analysis using linked administrative data (2008, background): “…literature that has examined the factors influencing educational achievement of different types of pupils, particularly in terms of the role of socio-economic background (Blanden and Gregg, 2004; Carneiro and Heckman, 2002, 2003; Gayle et al., 2002; Meghir and Palme, 2005; Haveman and Wolfe, 1995).”
Education and Invention (2016, background): “Moretti (2004) uses the establishment of land grant colleges in the nineteenthcentury United States to estimate human capital spillovers using 1980s data.”
Measuring heterogeneity in the returns to education using an education reform (2010, result): “These results compare favourably with the results of others; for instance, for Sweden, see Meghir and Palme (2005). The next three columns provide the ATE results, the CCTE results, and the TT results allowing for selection based on observable and unobservable background characteristics in the conte”