eprintid: 2895
rev_number: 10
eprint_status: archive
userid: 150
dir: disk0/00/00/28/95
datestamp: 2007-03-22 12:00:00
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type: working_paper
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item_issues_count: 0
creators_name: Meghir, C.
creators_name: Palme, M.
creators_id: CHDME77
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title: Educational reform, ability and family background
ispublished: pub
subjects: 12055
subjects: 12000
divisions: F24
keywords: JEL classification: H52, I21, I28, J24, J31. Human capital, evaluation of education reform, comprehensive schools, compulsory schooling, earnings, administrative data, differences in differences
abstract: 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, consisted of increasing compulsor schooling, imposing a national curriculum and abolishing selection by ability into Academic and non-academic streams at the age of 12 (comprehensive school reform). Our data combines survey data with administrative sources. We find that the reform increased both the educational attainment and the earnings of children whose fathers had just compulsory education. However the earnings of those with educated parents declined - possibly because of a dilution of quality at the top end of the education levels. The overall effect of the reform was however positive.
date: 2004-05
date_type: published
publisher: Institute for Fiscal Studies
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1920/wp.ifs.2004.0410
vfaculties: VSHS
oa_status: green
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
lyricists_name: Meghir, C
lyricists_id: CHDME77
full_text_status: public
series: IFS Working Papers
number: W04/10
place_of_pub: London, UK
issn: 1742-0415
citation:        Meghir, C.;    Palme, M.;      (2004)    Educational reform, ability and family background.                    (IFS Working Papers  W04/10). Institute for Fiscal Studies: London, UK.       Green open access   
 
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