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Learning at Home: Distance Learning Solutions and Child Development during the COVID-19 Lockdown

Champeaux, Hugues; Mangiavacchi, Lucia; Marchetta, Francesca - 2020

School closures, forced by the COVID-19 crisis in many countries, impacted on children's lives and their learning process. There will likely be substantial and persistent disparities between families in terms of educational outcomes. Distant learning solutions adopted by schools have been...

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When the Great Equalizer Shuts Down: Schools, Peers, and Parents in Pandemic Times

Agostinelli, Francesco; Doepke, Matthias; Sorrenti, Giuseppe - 2020

What are the effects of school closures during the Covid-19 pandemic on children's education? Online education is an imperfect substitute for in-person learning, particularly for children from low-income families. Peer effects also change: schools allow children from different socio-economic...

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What Drives Innovation? Lessons from COVID-19 R&D

Agarwal, Ruchir; Gaule, Patrick - 2021

To examine the drivers of innovation, this paper studies the global R&D effort to fight the deadliest diseases and … innovation can be very large, as demonstrated by aggregate flow of clinical trials increasing by 38% in 2020, with limited … economists are naturally in favor of market size as a driving force for innovation (i.e."if the market size is sufficiently large …

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Fathers Matter: Intra-Household Responsibilities and Children's Wellbeing during the COVID-19 Lockdown in Italy

Mangiavacchi, Lucia; Piccoli, Luca; Pieroni, Luca - 2020

The lockdown declared during the Spring 2020 because of the COVID-19 outbreak caused a reallocation of market and household work. A the same time school closures in many countries impacted on children's lives and their learning process. In Italy, schools and nurseries have been closed during...

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Hitting Where It Hurts Most: COVID-19 and Low-Income Urban College Students

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2020

Using administrative data merged with a rich student survey collected during the summer of 2020, we document the immediate and short-term educational, financial, and personal burdens of New York city's low-income public university students during the COVID-19 pandemic, the closing of college...

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

Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina - 2020

In spring 2020, governments around the globe shut down schools to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus. We argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of educator support during school closures. We collect detailed time-use information on students before...

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What Is at Stake without High-Stakes Exams? Students' Evaluation and Admission to College at the Time of COVID-19

Arenas, Andreu; Calsamiglia, Caterina; Loviglio, Annalisa - 2020

The outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020 inhibited face-to-face education and constrained exam taking. In many countries worldwide, high-stakes exams happening at the end of the school year determine college admissions. This paper investigates the impact of using historical data of school and...

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

Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina - 2020

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School's Out: Experimental Evidence on Limiting Learning Loss Using "Low-Tech" in a Pandemic

Angrist, Noam; Bergman, Peter; Matsheng, Moitshepi - 2020

Schools closed extensively during the COVID-19 pandemic and occur in other settings, such as teacher strikes and natural disasters. This paper provides some of the first experimental evidence on strategies to minimize learning loss when schools close. We run a randomized trial of low-technology...

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Apart but Connected: Online Tutoring and Student Outcomes during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Carlana, Michela; La Ferrara, Eliana - 2021

In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, the governments of most countries ordered the closure of schools, potentially exacerbating existing learning gaps. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of an intervention implemented in Italian middle schools that provides free individual tutoring online...

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