Agostinelli, Francesco; Doepke, Matthias; Sorrenti, Giuseppe - 2021
What are the effects of school closures during the Covid-19 pandemic on children's education? Online education is an … skill formation. We find that school closures have a large and persistent effect on educational outcomes that is highly … unequal. High school students from poor neighborhoods suffer a learning loss of 0.4 standard deviations, whereas children from …
