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The COVID-19 pandemic forced schools and universities to transit from traditional class-based teaching to online learning. This paper investigates the impact produced by this shift on students' performance. We use administrative data of four cohorts of students enrolled in an Italian University...
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potential beneficiaries compiled by school principals. Using original survey data collected from students, parents, teachers and …
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levels.As a consequence, most of the burden of children's learning fell on their parents, with likely uneven results … boys, on kids attending kindergarten (in Italy) or secondary school (in France), and on children whose parents have a lower … education level. We also find that the increase in the time spent in front of screen is correlated to a worse learning …
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We use standardized end-of-course knowledge assessments to examine student learning during the disruptions induced by the COVID-19 pandemic. Examining seven economics courses taught at four US R1 institutions, we find that students performed substantially worse, on average, in Spring 2020 when...
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Teleworking parents can better monitor and help their children with online learning. In this paper, I test whether … parents' teleworkability affected children's online learning during Covid school closures. I use panel data from Invalsi … Covid school closures between grade 2 and grade 5 and whether their parents work in teleworkable occupations. I also exploit …
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We examine the role of school closures in contributing to the negative labor market impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. We collect detailed daily information on school closures at the school-district level, which we merge to individual level data on various employment and socio- demographic...
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-class attendance only mildly. These findings have important implications for the design of education policies …
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We study the impact of COVID-19 school closures on differences in online learning usage by regional academic performance. Using data from Google Trends in Italy, we find that during the first lockdown, regions with a previously lower academic performance increased their searches for e-learning...
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in Albania. Although parents' migration usually benefits children economically, the lack of parental care may cause …
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This study examines cognitive and non-cognitive skills and their transmission from parents to children as one potential … from parents to their children, there are large discrepancies with respect to the age group and the type of skill. The … transmission effects are virtually unchanged by controlling for childhood environment or parental education, suggesting that the …
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