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Academic performance and selective admission policies - The impact of weighted SweSAT admission on academic performance in engineering programmes in Sweden

Wennberg, Jacob LU and Goude Rolfsmark, Martin LU (2022) NEKN01 20221
Department of Economics
Abstract
During the enrolment year of 2019 and 2020, some Swedish universities were presented with the opportunity to participate in an admission policy trial. The universities could choose to weigh SweSAT scores based programme specific requisites. The paper examines the policy implementation of weighted SweSAT admission in engineering programmes at Swedish universities. The question explored in the paper is whether academic performance, in terms of pass rates, increased as an effect of the policy or not. A difference-in-differences design is applied to investigate the causal effect of the policy implementation. The model primarily consists of two parts, accounting for university-specific effects and time-varying effects. As a robustness check, a... (More)
During the enrolment year of 2019 and 2020, some Swedish universities were presented with the opportunity to participate in an admission policy trial. The universities could choose to weigh SweSAT scores based programme specific requisites. The paper examines the policy implementation of weighted SweSAT admission in engineering programmes at Swedish universities. The question explored in the paper is whether academic performance, in terms of pass rates, increased as an effect of the policy or not. A difference-in-differences design is applied to investigate the causal effect of the policy implementation. The model primarily consists of two parts, accounting for university-specific effects and time-varying effects. As a robustness check, a time-varying control variable is integrated. The results suggest a negative causal effect of treatment. However, the findings are without substance and are likely better explained by omitted time-varying school-specific covariates not captured by the model. Thus, we encourage future research to extend the model, utilising more time-varying school-specific covariates to depict the actual treatment effect fully. (Less)
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author
Wennberg, Jacob LU and Goude Rolfsmark, Martin LU
supervisor
organization
course
NEKN01 20221
year
type
H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
subject
keywords
Admission policy change, difference-in-differences, engineering programmes, SweSAT.
language
English
id
9084393
date added to LUP
2022-10-10 09:27:10
date last changed
2022-10-10 09:27:10
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  abstract     = {{During the enrolment year of 2019 and 2020, some Swedish universities were presented with the opportunity to participate in an admission policy trial. The universities could choose to weigh SweSAT scores based programme specific requisites. The paper examines the policy implementation of weighted SweSAT admission in engineering programmes at Swedish universities. The question explored in the paper is whether academic performance, in terms of pass rates, increased as an effect of the policy or not. A difference-in-differences design is applied to investigate the causal effect of the policy implementation. The model primarily consists of two parts, accounting for university-specific effects and time-varying effects. As a robustness check, a time-varying control variable is integrated. The results suggest a negative causal effect of treatment. However, the findings are without substance and are likely better explained by omitted time-varying school-specific covariates not captured by the model. Thus, we encourage future research to extend the model, utilising more time-varying school-specific covariates to depict the actual treatment effect fully.}},
  author       = {{Wennberg, Jacob and Goude Rolfsmark, Martin}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Academic performance and selective admission policies - The impact of weighted SweSAT admission on academic performance in engineering programmes in Sweden}},
  year         = {{2022}},
}