Location choices of Swedish independent schools

Edmark, Karin

doi:10.1007/s00168-019-00933-y

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“…As regards teachers' labor market choices, Essay IV shows that proximity to schools constitutes an important determinant for the workplace choices of teachers. Given that Edmark (2019) has shown that private schools tend to choose their locations strategically, it may be important to understand the extent to which such location choices are dependent on the composition of the teachers living nearby, and whether the mobility of teachers to such new schools affects students in the schools from which these teachers move. Although there is an association between teacher mobility and student achievement, no studies have examined the feedback dynamics between these two factors using the type of mechanism-based approach advocated in this thesis.…”

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Free to Choose? : Studies of Opportunity Constraints and the Dynamics of School Segregation

Mutgan

2021

Institute for Analytical Sociology Dissertation Series

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I must first acknowledge the mentorship my two wonderful supervisors, Peter Hedström and Maria Brandén, gave me throughout my PhD education. Peter, your curiosity with a touch of skepticism every time you gave feedback on my writing made this dissertation a much better version of what it would become otherwise. I am forever grateful for your mentorship, your attention and backing whenever I needed. Maria, I am not sure if a few sentences can sum up how grateful I am for all you've done. Whatever I write here will fall short of how important you've been in my life since I've met you. I wholeheartedly believe that I became a better researcher and a better human being with your support throughout these years. Your mentorship, your confidence in me, all the advice you gave about navigating in academia, and countless and always constructive feedback you gave on my drafts are some of the reasons that this dissertation is now finished. Thank you both for keeping me on track but also giving me the space to explore my own ideas.At the Institute, I had the opportunity to study and work alongside many creative and supportive scholars. Sarah Valdez, I am one of the luckiest to have you as a friend and as a colleague since the first days of IAS. Your unwavering support, encouragement, and insightful suggestions throughout these years were monumentally important for me. Now that this journey is over, I am looking forward to the future to party one day like it's 3012. Marc Keuschnigg, I cannot overestimate your help for showing that you always believed in my abilities as a researcher. You have been a colleague that I can turn to whenever I needed advice, and your guidance has been a great help for this dissertation and for my career. Karl Wennberg, I am grateful for all your feedback on v III. Mutgan, Selcan and Eduardo Tapia (2021). "School Closure as a Desegregation Policy: A comprehensive evaluation". Unpublished manuscript.

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Free to Choose? : Studies of Opportunity Constraints and the Dynamics of School Segregation

Mutgan

2021

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“…Such effects exist in other educational markets. For instance, scholars analyzed the effect on the school educational market from the implementation of vouchers in the USA (Epple and Romano, 1998), from the appearance of charter schools in the USA (Ferreyra and Kosenok, 2018;Cordes, 2018) and independent schools in Sweden (Wondratschek et al, 2013;Edmark, 2019).…”

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Does government support of a few leading universities have a broader impact on the higher education system? Evaluation of the Russian University Excellence Initiative

Lovakov

Panova

Sterligov

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Research Evaluation

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Many governments attempt to improve national higher education through the competitive support of universities. These policy approaches raise questions about the impact on the entire system—both in research and educational—of targeted support for a small number of universities. Addressing challenges in the measurement of university excellence initiatives are among the most vital topics in research evaluation due to the central roles they often play in national research and university policy efforts. Using data from the Russian University Excellence Initiative (RUEI), we measure the spillover effects of such focused support and demonstrate that a broader impact does exist. In particular, we examine the performance of higher education institutions that were not part of RUEI and were not directly supported by it. We compare the university performance in regions both with and without RUEI universities. In doing so, we measure the indirect impact of RUEI on the higher education sector at the regional level. We show a positive effect on the level of publication activity that has recently become apparent. However, there has been no effect on the share of young faculty, international collaboration in publications, or the quality of enrollment. Judging from the broader research policy\research evaluation perspective, our study sheds light on the systemic effects of excellence initiatives, which are often neglected. Besides, excellence initiatives could trigger a change in the approach to evaluating research. So government should develop measure properly, taking into account various consequences, some of which are considered in our article.

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“…Although all schools must be open to anyone who applies, private schools are incentivized to attract high-ability students, and may influence the pool of applicants by locating in areas with certain socioeconomic or ethnic profiles, and targeting information at specific groups of parents (see Jennings, 2010 for a U.S. case). Swedish private schools tend to locate in more densely populated municipalities, in areas with high portions of students with highly educated parents, and in areas with higher-than-average proportions of immigrants (Edmark, 2019).…”

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The opportunity structure of segregation: School choice and school segregation in Sweden

Brandén

Bygren

2021

Acta Sociologica

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It is a matter of debate whether free school choice should lead to higher or lower levels of school segregation. We investigate how school choice opportunities affect school segregation utilizing geocoded Swedish population register data with information on 13 cohorts of ninth graders. We find that local school choice opportunities strongly affect the sorting of students across schools based on the parents’ country of birth and level of education. An increase in the number of local schools leads to higher levels of local segregation net of stable area characteristics, and time-varying controls for population structure and local residential segregation. In particular, the local presence of private voucher schools pushes school segregation upwards. The segregating impact of school choice opportunities is notably stronger in ‘native’ areas with high portions of highly educated parents, and in areas with low residential segregation. Our results point to the importance of embedding individual actors in relevant opportunity structures for understanding segregation processes.

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Location choices of Swedish independent schools

Cited by 10 publications

References 17 publications

Free to Choose? : Studies of Opportunity Constraints and the Dynamics of School Segregation

Free to Choose? : Studies of Opportunity Constraints and the Dynamics of School Segregation

Does government support of a few leading universities have a broader impact on the higher education system? Evaluation of the Russian University Excellence Initiative

The opportunity structure of segregation: School choice and school segregation in Sweden

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