• Do welfare counsellors help at-risk upper secondary school students? 

      Salvanes, Kari Vea; Reiling, Rune Borgan; Sandsør, Astrid Marie Jorde (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Counselling is considered to be an important policy tool to prevent early school leaving, yet little is known about the effect of counselling on student outcomes. We investigate the effect of a novel type of counselling ...
    • The effect of central government grants on local educational policy 

      Reiling, Rune Borgan; Salvanes, Kari Vea; Sandsør, Astrid Marie Jorde; Strøm, Bjarne (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The use of intergovernmental grants in educational policies may give rise to a conflict between gains attributable to local flexibility and the central government’s intention to narrow gaps in school spending and resource ...
    • How does testing young children influence educational attainment and well-being? 

      Green, Colin; Nyhus, Ole Henning; Salvanes, Kari Vea (Journal article, 2022)
      How much young children should be tested and graded is a highly contentious issue in education policy. Opponents consider it detrimental to child mental health, leading to misaligned incentives in educational policy and ...
    • Pre-analysis plan: The Effect of Small Group Instruction in Mathematics for Pupils in Lower Elementary School 

      Bonesrønning, Hans; Finseraas, Henning; Hardoy, Ines; Vaag Iversen, Jon Marius; Nyhus, Ole Henning; Opheim, Vibeke; Salvanes, Kari Vea; Sandsør, Astrid Marie Jorde; Schøne, Pål (Research report, 2018)
    • Samfunnsviteres og humanisters overgang til arbeidsmarkedet 

      Næss, Terje; Salvanes, Kari Vea; Wiers-Jenssen, Jannecke (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Denne artikkelen ser på i hvilken grad arbeidsmarkedet har klart å absorbere større kull av kandidater fra samfunnsvitenskapelige og humanistiske og estetiske fag i perioden 1995–2015. Datagrunnlaget er NIFUs kandidatund ...
    • Small-Group Instruction to Improve Student Performance in Mathematics in Early Grades: Results from a Randomized Field Experiment 

      Bonesrønning, Hans; Finseraas, Henning; Hardoy, Ines; Iversen, Jon Marius Vaag; Nyhus, Ole Henning; Opheim, Vibeke; Salvanes, Kari Vea; Sandsør, Astrid Marie Jorde; Schøne, Pål (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      We investigate whether small-group instruction improves student performance in mathematics in the early grades using a large-scale RCT covering 159 Norwegian schools over four years. The students − 7–9 years old - are ...
    • Tverrfaglig samarbeid – da NAV flyttet inn i videregående skoler 

      Reiling, Rune Borgan; Salvanes, Kari Vea; Sandsør, Astrid Marie Jorde (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Forsøksordningen med NAV-veiledere i videregående skole er en nyere ordning hvor det ble etablert et formelt samarbeid mellom videregående skoler og NAV for å hjelpe utsatte elever. Vi undersøker om ordningen har bidratt ...
    • Utdanning som arbeidsrettet tiltak for ungdom med redusert arbeidsevne 

      Salvanes, Kari Vea; Reiling, Rune Borgan; Sandsør, Astrid Marie Jorde (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Denne artikkelen undersøker virkninger av utdanning som arbeidsmarkedstiltak for unge med nedsatte arbeidsevner. Fra og med 1. januar 2004 ble nedre aldersgrense for å få støtte til kvalifisering i det ordinære utdanningssystemet ...