The 8th Stockholm Uppsala Education Economics Workshop
General information
The 8th Stockholm Uppsala Education Economics Workshop will be held at the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University on Wednesday, May 6th, 2026. We will circulate the call for papers in the late fall of 2025. Our keynote speaker will be Kirabo Jackson (Northwestern University).
The Stockholm-Uppsala Education Economics Workshop aims at bringing together researchers from Stockholm and Uppsala with an interest in the Economics of Education. We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Jan Wallanders och Tom Hedelius stiftelse samt Tore Browaldhs stiftelse.
Submission and registration
Paper submission opens on December 1, 2025: please follow this link to submit your abstract and/or paper. The submission deadline is March 1, 2026. We will notify you by the end of March the latest.
Attendance registration opens on December 1, 2025: you need to be registered to attend the workshop. Please register your attendance here (last day for registration: April 10, 2026)
March 30: We have now sent out all decision emails
You can download a pdf of the call for papers here
Workshop program
Each presentation is 30 minutes including questions and comments.
09:30 Welcome
09:35 Alexandra Sandström (Uppsala University): Education, Language, and Identity: Evidence from Nation-Building
10:05 Louis-Pierre Lepage (SOFI): Anticipated Discrimination and Major Choice
short break (15 min.)
10:50 Ellen Sahlström (Aalto): Preventing the social exclusion of immigrants
11:20 Jonas Vlachos (Stockholm University): Classrooms as Workplaces: How Student Composition Affects Teacher Health
11:50-13:00 Lunch (Vårdshuset Kräftan / 5 min walk)
13:00 Mattias Folkestad (IIES): Does money matter? Impact of a redistributive school funding formula on school spending and student outcomes
13:30 Sturla Løkken (Statistics Norway): High School Match Effects
short break (15 min.)
14:15-15:15: Keynote by Kirabo Jackson (Northwestern): The Returns to Public Investment in Children
fika break (30 min.)
15:45 Erica Lindahl (Uppsala University): Why has the social gradient in early school performance become steeper? Evidence from Scandinavia
16:15 David Strömberg (Stockholm University): AI in School
short break (15 min.)
17:00 Erika Povea (NHH): When Organized Crime Moves In: Economic and Human Capital Disruption
17:30 Martin Fischer (Lund University): Beyond Earnings: How School Starting Age Shapes in What Sector and Where We Work
19:30 Welcome drinks at Restaurant TAK (floor 14)
20:15 Workshop dinner
Workshop lunch and dinner
All speakers and registered participants are invited to join for lunch and dinner. Dinner will take place at Restaurant TAK (Brunkebergstorg 2-4, 111 51 Stockholm). Please note that all drinks and meals are free of charge to registered participants.
Contact and further information
If you have any questions regarding the workshop, please send an email to Jan Sauermann.