THE LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF LONG TERMS - COMPULSORY SCHOOLING REFORMS IN SWEDEN

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Fischer, Martin; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese; Schwarz, Nina
• 署名单位: Karolinska Institutet; University of Duisburg Essen; Lund University; Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1542-4766
• DOI: 10.1093/jeea/jvz071
• 发表日期: 2020
• 页码: 2776-2823
• 关键词: child-care; outcomes evidence; health evidence; intergenerational transmission; maternal employment; student performance; mortality evidence; earnings evidence; instruction time; perry preschool

摘要

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 years of 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 sizeable and benefited 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 and the term extension reduced the gender gap in employment and earnings.