Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/183452 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
IFN Working Paper No. 1223
Publisher: 
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm
Abstract: 
We evaluate the impact on earnings, pensions, and further labor market outcomes of two parallel educational reforms increasing instructional time in Swedish primary school. The reforms extended the annual term length and compulsory schooling by comparable amounts. We find striking differences in the effects of the two reforms: at 5%, the returns to the term length extension were at least half as high as OLS returns to education and bene ted broad ranges of the population. The compulsory schooling extension had small (2%) albeit significant effects, which were possibly driven by an increase in post-compulsory schooling. Both reforms led to increased sorting into occupations with heavy reliance on basic skills.
Subjects: 
Educational reforms
Compulsory schooling
Term length
Returns to Education
JEL: 
J24
J31
I28
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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