Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/272701 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 16074
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
test scores
online teaching
school closures
COVID-19
JEL: 
I21
I24
I28
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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