Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/103130 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 4976
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This study analyses whether the Swedish school choice reform, enacted in 1992, had different effects on students from different socio-economic backgrounds. We use detailed geographical data on students' and schools' locations to construct measures of the degree of potential choice. This allows us to study the effects of choice opportunities among public schools, whereas previous studies have focused on newly opened private schools. Our results suggest small positive or no effects of choice opportunities, depending on specification and outcome. We find no strong evidence of differences between subgroups; if anything, effects tend to be slightly more positive for disadvantaged groups, such as students from low-income families. Taken together, the results indicate that students from a socio-economically disadvantaged or immigrant background were not harmed by the reform.
Subjects: 
school choice
school competition
treatment evaluation
cognitive and non-cognitive skills
JEL: 
I24
C21
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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