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 …

Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and leveraging three alternative … schools improves reading - but not math - performance and it also decreases absenteeism of students who remain in the TPS …