The Effect of School Closures on Standardized Test Scores: Evidence from a Zero-COVID Environment

Nalini Prasad () and Christian Gillitzer ()
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Nalini Prasad: UNSW Sydney
Christian Gillitzer: The University of Sydney

No 2023-13, Discussion Papers from School of Economics, The University of New South Wales

Abstract: Pandemic school closures were widespread but occurred together with COVID-19 health effects. Australia’s successful COVID-19 elimination policies provide a unique setting to studythe effect of school closures on learning loss absent significant health effects. We exploit variation in the duration of school closures across Australian regions of 9-157 school days and student-level test score data from a national standardized test with high participation to estimate learning loss. Learning loss was substantially smaller than comparable estimates from the literature, including for disadvantaged socioeconomic groups.

Keywords: student test scores; COVID-19; NAPLAN; pandemic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 I21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40 pages
Date: 2023-09
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