Stockholm university

Research project The impact of changing the local supply of academic upper secondary educations

This paper presents an evaluation of the effects of changing access, due to supply variations, to three fields of academic upper secondary education in Sweden: Natural Science/Engineering, Social Science/Humanities, and Business.

Lockers in a corridor
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The study utilizes variations in the number of classes offered in different program groups and school regions to estimate the impact on local students’ educational trajectories and adult labour market outcomes. The investigation highlights the multidimensional impact of upper secondary supply: Changing the supply of one program affected not only access to that program, but also other policy-relevant aspects such as the competition for other programs and the overall access to higher education.

Project members

Project managers

Karin Margret Edmark

Senior lecturer

Swedish Institute for Social Research
Karin Edmark