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The impacts of the Free Semester program on students’ exam nervousness

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I examine the impacts of the Free Semester (FS) program, which is an exam-free semester for middle school students in South Korea, on students’ level of exam nervousness. I use a difference-in-differences approach that exploits the variation in FS-implementation across middle schools to estimate these impacts. I find that the FS program has statistically significant impacts on relieving exam nervousness during the semester in which it is run. In contrast, I find no statistically significant average medium-run impacts of the program. My subgroup analyses suggest that the reduction in exam nervousness during the FS is driven largely by high-achieving students.

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  • Shin, Yoosik, 2022. "The impacts of the Free Semester program on students’ exam nervousness," Economics & Human Biology, Elsevier, vol. 44(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ehbiol:v:44:y:2022:i:c:s1570677x21001040
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2021.101079
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    Keywords

    Free Semester; Exam nervousness; Educational economics; South Korea;
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    JEL classification:

    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
    • I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy
    • J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth

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