The impact of local supply of upper secondary field of study

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ID21506499
AuthorsKarin Edmark (0000-0002-5629-5499, Stockholm University, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume108
Pages102687
Publication date2025-10-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEconomics of Education Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0272-7757 • E-ISSN: 1873-7382
PublisherElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.econedurev.2025.102687
OpenAlexW4413137339
LanguageEN
References cited21

The availability of upper secondary education affected students’ field of education. • Changes in the supply of upper secondary education did not affect students’ labour market outcomes. • Educational supply changes can affect class sizes, peer groups and application behaviour. This study evaluates the effects on students' educational and labour market trajectories of centrally determined local supply variations in upper secondary educational fields in Sweden. The main conclusion is that although increased supply improved access to upper secondary tracks, there is no clear evidence that students' long-term labour market outcomes were affected. An analysis of intermediate outcomes suggests that supply changes affected aspects such as class size, school peer composition, and students’ upper secondary application behaviour. There are also signs of spill-over effects across fields – that an increase in one field leads to a reduction in admissions to another. Some of these intermediate impacts plausibly have negative effects on students’ long-term labour market outcomes and others positive. Such counteracting forces may explain the lack of any clear impact on long-term labour market outcomes

Business · Economics · Political science · Regional science · Sociology · Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities · Higher Education Research Studies · Mathematics · School Choice and Performance

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