Time-varying educational ChatGPT exposure shows no significant effect on high school test scores in the balanced panel; significant unbalanced-panel results are not robust¶
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q2 i? Year-specific coefficients are 0.0100 (0.0066) in 2023, -0.0017 (0.0046) in 2024 and 0.0172 (0.0160) in 2025, none statistically distinguishable from zero. → Nick Huntington-Klein 2026
Evidence¶
Nick Huntington-Klein 2026¶
Nick Huntington-Klein. (2026). Little Impact of ChatGPT on High School Test Scores. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08812 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2605.08812
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Event-study specification measuring the summer dip separately by metropolitan area and year, normalized to zero in 2022, on the balanced panel. No specification in the pooled table is significant at the 5% level.
"The coefficients are 0.0100 (0.0066) in 2023, -0.0017 (0.0046) in 2024 and 0.0172 (0.0160) in 2025. None of these estimated effects are statistically distinguishable from zero."
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Time-varying educational ChatGPT exposure shows no significant effect on high school test scores in the balanced panel; significant unbalanced-panel results are not robust |
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Time-varying educational ChatGPT exposure shows no significant effect on high school test scores in the balanced panel; significant unbalanced-panel results are not robust |
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