The Longer Students Were Out of School, the Less They Learned

Harry Patrinos ()

No 10420, Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank

Abstract: COVID-19 led to school closures and emergency remote learning systems. It is feared that students learned less when they were remote. This paper analyzes school closures during the pandemic using a unique data base. The determinants of the duration of school closures estimates were used to instrument school closures – stringency of lockdown and vaccination – and causally estimate the impact of duration on learning. It is estimated that for every week that schools were closed, learning levels declined by almost 1 percent of a standard deviation. This means that a 20 week closure, for example, would reduce learning outcomes by 0.20 standard deviation, almost one year of schooling.

Date: 2023-04-24
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ure
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (8)

Downloads: (external link)
http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/09953400 ... d3305c282c112fe8.pdf (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 404 Not Found (http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099534004242341552/pdf/IDU0807776730889d04a240ad3305c282c112fe8.pdf [302 Moved Temporarily]--> https://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099534004242341552/pdf/IDU0807776730889d04a240ad3305c282c112fe8.pdf [302 Found]--> http://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/099534004242341552/pdf/IDU0807776730889d04a240ad3305c282c112fe8.pdf [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/099534004242341552/pdf/IDU0807776730889d04a240ad3305c282c112fe8.pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:10420

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank 1818 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20433. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Roula I. Yazigi ().