Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics
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IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy
No 2006:16: School choice and student achievement – new evidence on open-enrolment
Martin Söderström ()
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Martin Söderström: Uppsala University, Department of Economics, Postal: Box 513, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden
Abstract: This paper studies the effects of open-enrolment on student performance in the context of an admission reform in Stockholm. Before 2000, students had priority to the public upper secondary school situated closest to where they lived, but from the fall of 2000 and onwards, admission is based on grades only. The reform imposed strong incentives for school competition: all students can apply to all schools, there is no targeting of students to schools, and funding follows the students. It is shown that the students in Stockholm perform no better with increased choice availability. In fact, high ability students seem to perform worse after the reform.
Keywords: School choice; open-enrolment
JEL-codes: I21
29 pages, December 4, 2006
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