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Too hot to study? Gender and SES differences in the effect of temperature on school performance

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  • CONTE KEIVABU, Risto

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Research highlighted a negative effect of extreme temperature on school performance, especially for ethnic minorities and low status students. This article inquires how SES and gender moderate the effect of temperature on test scores. The focus on gender differences is granted by recent experimental studies that exposed a positive effect of temperature on girl’s test scores. In this research, I use the Italian administrative dataset INVALSI combined with measures of temperature on the test day at the provincial level based on the ERA-5 Land database. The results highlight a negative effect of temperatures below 10°C and no effect of temperatures above 30°C on math test scores, although heterogeneity across gender. Females benefit from higher temperature but males do not. Temperature shocks and school year exposure confirm the pattern. Conversely, no SES differences are observed.

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  • CONTE KEIVABU, Risto, 2020. "Too hot to study? Gender and SES differences in the effect of temperature on school performance," SocArXiv whtf5_v1, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:whtf5_v1
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/whtf5_v1
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