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The Association of Opening K-12 Schools and Colleges with the Spread of COVID-19 in the United States : County-Level Panel Data Analysis

Chernozhukov, Victor; Kasahara, Hiroyuki; Schrimpf, Paul - 2021

This paper empirically examines how the opening of K-12 schools and colleges is associated with the spread of COVID-19 using county-level panel data in the United States. Using data on foot traffic and K-12 school opening plans, we analyze how an increase in visits to schools and opening schools...

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Can Peer Mentoring Improve Online Teaching Effectiveness? An RCT During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Hardt, David; Nagler, Markus; Rincke, Johannes - 2021

Online delivery of higher education has taken center stage but is fraught with issues of student self-organization. We …

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Parental and Student Time Use Around the Academic Year

Cowan, Benjamin; Jones, Todd R.; Swigert, Jeff - 2023

We demonstrate how mothers, fathers, and 15–17-year-old students alter their schedules around the K-12 academic year. Using regression discontinuity (RDD) methods, combined with dates on school year start and end dates by locality, we document several notable results. First, mothers are...

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Parents Under Stress - Evaluating Emergency Childcare Policies During the First COVID-19 Lockdown in Germany

Schüller, Simone; Steinberg, Hannah - 2021

policies did not considerably affect parents’ life satisfaction, partnership satisfaction or mental health, they have been …

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Parental Well-Being in Times of COVID-19 in Germany

Huebener, Mathias - 2020

We examine the differential effects of COVID-19 and related restrictions on individuals with dependent children in Germany. We specifically focus on the role of school and day care center closures, which may be regarded as a “disruptive exogenous shock” to family life. We make use of a novel...

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The Impact of COVID-19 on Community College Enrollment and Student Success : Evidence from California Administrative Data

Bulman, George; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2022

effects were substantial for students at California Community Colleges, the largest higher education system in the country …

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COVID-19 and Educational Inequality : How School Closures Affect Low- and High-Achieving Students

Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina - 2021

In spring 2020, governments around the globe shut down schools to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus. We … collect detailed time-use information on students before and during the school closures in a survey of 1,099 parents in … conducive to child development. The learning gap was not compensated by parents or schools who provided less support for low …

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COVID-19 Crisis, Economic Hardships and Schooling Outcomes

Gehrke, Esther; Lenel, Friederike; Schupp, Claudia - 2022

We combine phone-survey data from 2,200 students collected in July-August of 2020 with student-level administrative data from 54 schools in four Northwestern provinces of Cambodia to investigate the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for grade 9 students. These students were particularly...

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Working from Home in European Countries Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Jerbashian, Vahagn; Vilalta-Bufí, Montserrat - 2022

We use data from the EU Labour Force Survey for 8 countries and document the levels of working from home in the sample countries, industries, and occupations in the 2011-2019 period and its changes in 2020, the year when the COVID-19 pandemic started. We show that there are significant...

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Surviving Pandemics : The Role of Spillovers

Ayyagari, Meghana; Cheng, Yuxi; Weinberger, Ariel - 2022

What role do spillover effects play in firm resilience during crises? Using high-frequency data on over 7 million import transactions, we ask this question in the context of the large trade disruption faced by US importers in the months immediately following the initial COVID-19 shock. While US...

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