Tavares, JoséSantos, João Pereira dosGabriel, José Miguel Amaral De Mesquita2020-09-182021-01-172020-01-172020-01-03http://hdl.handle.net/10362/104284Thisstudy examineswhether standardized 12thgrade national examination results are sensitive to coming legislative electionsin Portugal.Using individual data for all exiting high-school students takingnational examsbetween the years 2004 and 2018,our empirical investigation uncovers a 1.17 and 0.63increase, on a scale of 0 to 20, in Mathematics and Portuguese scores, respectively, in the years where the exams occurredbefore legislative elections.Weshow that a unit increase in the average score of Mathematics and Portuguese exams, in those years, leads to a 1.46 percentage point risein the vote share of the seating government.engPolitical business cyclesElectionsStandardized examsEducationmaster thesis202492370