examine the extent of potential grading inflation in courses taken during high school and how such differences vary across … student and school characteristics. Utilizing longitudinal, administrative data for the population of high school students in …'s high school grade relative to their score on the national standardized admission exam. We analyze differences in this …

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 …-secondary education than the students who experienced shorter school closures. Moreover, we show that inequalities across Finnish students …

the design and decentralized, school-based scoring of New York’s high-stakes Regents Examinations have led to pervasive … eligibility to graduate and school accountability. Our results suggest that roughly 3 to 5 percent of the exam scores that … qualified for a high school diploma actually had performance below the state requirements. Using multiple sources of data, we …

Catholic secondary schooling on high school graduation rates and also examines Catholic schooling's effect on college … States. These measures of access provide potential instruments for Catholic school attendance. The results indicate that …

emerging adults, state policymakers have expanded high school personal finance graduation requirements. Did these added …

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 …-secondary education than the students who experienced shorter school closures. Moreover, we show that inequalities across Finnish students …

In this paper, we study how high school students reacted to the shocking news of a school shooting. The shooting … coincided with national high-school matriculation exams. As there were exams both before and after the shooting, we can use a … difference-in-differences analysis to uncover how the school shooting affected the test scores compared to previous years. We …