Hidden drop-outs: secondary education (unseen) failure in pandemic times

Lorenzo Alderighi (), Rosario Ballatore and Marco Tonello
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Lorenzo Alderighi: European University Institute

No 794, Questioni di Economia e Finanza (Occasional Papers) from Bank of Italy, Economic Research and International Relations Area

Abstract: In this paper we estimate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on hidden drop-outs, a new indicator of failure to acquire the minimum skills deemed necessary to obtain a high school diploma. We use the exogenous variation induced by the pandemic by comparing two cohorts of students from the same school, one affected and the other not affected by the pandemic. We find that the indicator increased by 8.6 percentage points. The effect is stronger for students with lower levels of prior achievement, those from lower-income households, but also for those who showed emotional distress during the standardized tests and those who report lower educational aspirations.

Keywords: hidden drop-outs; secondary education; school failure; COVID-19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I18 I21 I24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-09
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