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 and adopt a difference-in-differences strategy exploiting the … face-to-face in the first semester. We compare students' performance in the second semester of 2020 with their performance …

Students face four decision margins: (a) How many years to spend in school, (b) What to study, (c) How much effort to … achievement trends. Even though, greater rigor and higher standards improve learning, parents and students prefer easy teachers … effects on learning or dropout rates but they do appear to have positive effects on the reputation of high school graduates …

school on both students' learning and mothers' labor supply. we rely on unique application-to-primary-school data: first, we …This paper considers the case of Italy to analyze the short- and medium-term effect of a longer school day in primary … received by the school and from class size limits set by the law. We show that attending the FT scheme increases Math test …

The effect of school closures and distance learning during the COVID19 pandemic on student achievement is still the … subject of discussion. After the end of the pandemic-related restrictions, learning losses of students are being assessed and … school students or to evaluate the govern-ment programs. This is a fundamental problem. The pandemic has only highlighted …

skills of primary school pupils in Italy. We compare the learning achievements of two cohorts of pupils, the pre-Covid and …Italy was the first Western country hit by Covid-19 in February 2020, responding with a tight lockdown and full school … closure until the end of the school year. This paper estimates the effect of the pandemic and school closure on the math …

We use a panel survey of ∼19,000 primary-school-aged children in rural Tamil Nadu to study "learning loss" after COVID …-19-induced school closures, and the pace of recovery after schools reopened. Students tested in December 2021 (18 months … after school closures) displayed learning deficits of ∼0.7σ in math and 0.34σ in language compared to identically …

document students' access to remote learning based on survey data and to investigate how school closures and remote learning … 80% of the respondents felt that their children's learning progress was slower during school closures than it would have …We study children's access to remote learning when schools were closed during the COVID-19 pandemic and their parents …

analysis finds that online classes reduced perceived learning loss during school closures, but this does not hold for TV …School closures have a negative impact on children's educational outcomes. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Central Asia … and the Caucasus introduced online classes and TV programs with a view to preventing learning loss. Based on a household …

primary and secondary school children in slum and rural households in Bangladesh, we examine how learning time at home during …. The results imply a loss of out-of-school learning time during school closure even in households with technology access …COVID-19 school closure has caused a worldwide shift towards technology-aided home schooling. Given widespread poverty …

increases learning. Our sample includes children currently enrolled in school as well as those out of school. About half of the … indicators of school quality matters for overall learning outcomes, however, does not mitigate against the gender gap. These …Using a primary school curricular standard basic mathematics competence test, this paper documents the low level of …