Access to and demand for online school education during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan

Hideo Akabayashi, Shimpei Taguchi and Mirka Zvedelikova

International Journal of Educational Development, 2023, vol. 96, issue C

Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in school closures worldwide, including in Japan, where remote education at schools is underdeveloped. Using a unique panel dataset collected in May and December 2020, we examine the determinants of access to online education at and outside schools and parents’ preference towards at-school online education. We observe that children from more privileged family backgrounds received more at-school as well as outside-school online education. We also find that household income and parent’s educational level are associated with higher demand for at-school online education, while mothers working full-time and fathers in non-regular contracts decreased this demand temporarily.

Keywords: Online education; COVID-19; Family background; Parental work; Japan (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I24 I28 J81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2022.102687

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