Linnéskolan och Kroksbäck: Ett naturligt experiment i skolintegration

Sammanfattning: The Swedish school system has gone from one of the least segregated and equal in outcomes in the 90's to being an average OECD country in both categories. To try and understand the relations between the two variables I study the case of Linnéskolan and Kroksbäcksskolan between 2007 and 2013. Linnéskolan is in an affluent area of Malmö where most parents have tertiary education and have a mostly Swedish background. In comparison Kroksbäcksskolan is in a poor area where parents often lack secondary and tertiary education and a majority of the students have a foreign background. During three years between 2007 and 2009 the students from Kroksbäck who were about to start the sixth grade started at Linnéskolan instead. This paper studies the grades of the students at Linnéskolan during the years these students graduate and whether changing school made these students perform better than expected from a student body of their composition. Using a difference-in-difference approach with controls for parents' education and background, no significant result on grades is found.