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

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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.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 16074

Klassifikation und Themen

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

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Riudavets-Barcons, Marc ; Uusitalo, Roope
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2023

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/272701
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ