Essays about: "School centralization reform"

Found 1 essay containing the words School centralization reform.

  1. 1. Will more funding generate better academic results in primary school - A quasi-experimental study of the centralization reform in Stockholm 2007

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik

    Author : Mattias Hallberg; Carl Nilsson; [2015-07-02]
    Keywords : School funding; Student performance; School centralization reform; Primary School;

    Abstract : The fact that education plays a major part for wealth of nations has been known for quite some time, but the debate over the true relationship between school funding and student performance is ongoing in both academia and among policymakers. They all want to answer the same question - how can the returns of education be maximized? We use a centralization reform in Stockholm from 2007 to estimate the causal e_ect of increased school funding on student performance. READ MORE