The Short- and Long-term Effects of School Choice on Student Outcomes - Evidence from a School Choice Reform in Sweden

Verena Wondratschek, Karin Edmark and Markus Frölich ()

Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2013, issue 111-112, 71-101

Abstract: This paper evaluates the effects of a major Swedish school-choice reform. The reform in 1992 increased school choice and competition among public schools and led to a large-scale introduction of publicly funded private schools. We estimate the effects of school choice and competition, using precise geographical information on the locations of school buildings and children's homes for the entire Swedish population, for several cohorts affected at different stages in their educational career. We can measure the long-term effects up to age 25. We find that increased school choice had very small but positive effects on marks at the end of compulsory schooling, but virtually zero effects on longer term outcomes such as university education, employment, criminal activity and health.

Date: 2013
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Working Paper: The short- and long-term effects of school choice on student outcomes: Evidence from a school choice reform in Sweden (2013)
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