Winter weather on exam dates and matriculation for a prestigious university in Japan

Mizuhiro Suzuki

Economics Letters, 2024, vol. 237, issue C

Abstract: Whereas there are growing numbers of studies on how heat affects cognitive performance at high-stakes settings, the effect of cold weather has been less studied. To fill this gap, I analyze the effects of winter weather on exam dates on performance at the centralized exam for university admission in Japan. Since students take the exam in their own prefectures, they are exposed to different weather conditions on the exam dates. I find that low temperature and snow cumulated on the ground reduce matriculation shares for the most prestigious university in Japan, the University of Tokyo. This result suggests that the winter weather on exam dates worsens exam performance.

Keywords: Temperature; Education; University matriculation; Cognitive performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 J24 Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2024.111631

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