School Closures and Student Achievement: Evidence from a High Stakes Exam

Arbeitspapier

We study the effect of school closures and the transition from on-site to on-line teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic in the Finnish upper secondary schools. To identify the effects we exploit variation in the length of school closure periods across schools between autumn 2020 and spring 2021. Using a difference-in-difference design, we show that the students who studied on-line for longer periods performed equally well in the Matriculation exam at the end of upper-secondary education than the students who experienced shorter school closures. Moreover, we show that inequalities across Finnish students from different socioeconomic backgrounds did not exacerbate during this period.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 16074

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Analysis of Education ; Education and Inequality ; Education: Government Policy
• Subject: test scores ; online teaching ; school closures ; COVID-19

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Riudavets-Barcons, Marc ; Uusitalo, Roope
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2023

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/272701
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET