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paper examines internet access in India using National Sample Survey 2017-18. It probes the extent of inequality in young …During COVID school closures, learning become mostly restricted to young people who had internet access at home. This … people's internet access across gender, caste, religion, rural-urban sector, private-public schools, and income group. Our …
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paper examines internet access in India using National Sample Survey 2017-18. It probes the extent of inequality in young …During COVID school closures, learning become mostly restricted to young people who had internet access at home. This … people's internet access across gender, caste, religion, rural-urban sector, private-public schools, and income group. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351926
implementation of seat quotas for women applied to a three-tiered local governance structure in India. Enrollment effects were …
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In this report, we review what we know about learning losses and other schooling impacts in South Africa after two years of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020 and 2021). Four overall trends emerge from existing evidence. First, there have been extensive learning losses in the General Education and...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all segments of the population, including college students in higher education institutions. This paper examines the survey of 400 undergraduate students at the largest public university in Thailand between March and June 2021 to identify the causal impacts of...
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This paper studies the effects of differential exposure to COVID-19 on educational outcomes in Guatemala. The government adopted a warning index (ranging from 0 to 10) to classify municipalities by infection rates in 2020, which was then used by the Ministry of Education in 2021 to establish a...
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Most learners in South African schools missed at least three-quarters of a school year over the course of 2020 and 2021, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, lockdowns, school closures and rotational timetables that were introduced to maintain social distancing in classrooms. These lost school days are...
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students worldwide. In India, schools were closed for over 18 months, affecting 248 million students. This study estimates the … effect of the pandemic on adolescent literacy and schooling outcomes in India. We used data from the National Family Health … Survey (NFHS-5) which covered 636,699 households across all districts of India during June 2019 to April 2021. We considered …
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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...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013435114