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The impact of high-stakes school admission exams on study achievements: quasi-experimental evidence from Slovakia
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SYSNO ASEP 0482113 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Článek ve WOS Title The impact of high-stakes school admission exams on study achievements: quasi-experimental evidence from Slovakia Author(s) Federičová, Miroslava (NHU-C) ORCID
Münich, Daniel (NHU-C) RID, ORCIDSource Title Journal of Population Economics. - : Springer - ISSN 0933-1433
Roč. 30, č. 4 (2017), s. 1069-1092Number of pages 24 s. Language eng - English Country DE - Germany Keywords high-stakes exams ; students’ motivation ; achievement Subject RIV AH - Economics OECD category Applied Economics, Econometrics Institutional support NHU-C - Progres-Q24 UT WOS 000406272800002 EID SCOPUS 85019234665 DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-017-0643-2 Annotation We explore whether and to what extent the presence of high-stakes admission exams to selective schools affects student achievement, presumably through more intensive study effort. Our identification strategy exploits a quasi-experimental feature of a reform in Slovakia that shifted the school grade during which high-stakes exams are taken by 1 year. This reform enables us to compare students at the moment when they pass these exams with students in the same grade 1 year ahead of the exams. Using data from the low-stakes international TIMSS skills survey and employing difference-in-difference methodology, we find that the occurrence of high-stakes admission exams increased 10-year-old students’ math test scores by 0.2 standard deviations, on average. This effect additionally accrues by around 0.05 standard deviations among students with the highest probability of being admitted to selective schools. Although we find similar effects for both genders, there are indications that high-stakes exams in more competitive environments affect girls more than boys. Workplace NHU-C Contact Tomáš Pavela, pavela@cerge-ei.cz, Tel.: 224 005 122 Year of Publishing 2018
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