Learning losses from school closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic for Thai kindergartners

Weerachart Kilenthong, Khanista Boonsanong, Sartja Duangchaiyoosook, Wasinee Jantorn and Varunee Khruapradit

Economics of Education Review, 2023, vol. 96, issue C

Abstract: Using a large-scale school readiness survey in Thailand, this paper presents empirical evidence of learning losses from school closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic for kindergartners. Overall results indicate that school closure during the outbreak of COVID-19 causes significant learning losses in cognitive skills, especially in mathematics and working memory. The negative impact is heterogeneous across several dimensions, including child gender, special needs, wealth, private tutoring, caregiver education, and parental absence. This paper also estimates daily learning gains, of which significant results confirm that going to school has significantly benefited young children, especially in receptive language, mathematics, and working memory.

Keywords: Learning losses; School closure; School readiness; Daily learning gains; COVID-19; COVID slide; Disadvantaged children; Working memory; Math; Literacy; Receptive language; Non-cognitive (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I25 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2023.102455

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