TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Riudavets-Barcons, Marc
AU  - Uusitalo, Roope
        TI  - School Closures and Student Achievement: Evidence from a High Stakes Exam
        PY  - 2023/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 16074
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp16074
        AB  - 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. 
        KW  - test scores
KW  - online teaching
KW  - school closures
KW  - COVID-19
        ER  -