COVID-19 and Children's School Resilience : Evidence from Nigeria
This paper analyzes the impact of COVID-19 lockdown measures on children's school resilience. Using an individual fixed-effect linear probability model on Nigeria data, it exploits the quasi-randomness of these measures to estimate their effect on school attendance after the lockdown was lifted. The results show that COVID-19 lockdown measures reduced children's probability of attending school after the school system reopened. This negative impact increased with children's age, reaching a peak among those whose education was no longer compulsory. For schoolchildren in that age group, the negative effect of COVID-19 lockdown measures is likely to be permanent, which, if not reversed, will undermine the quality of the economy-wide future labor force. The paper also finds evidence that in the child marriage-prone North-West part of Nigeria that these measures increased gender inequality in education among children aged 12 to 18. This result suggests that COVID-19 lockdown measures may exacerbate harmful traditional practices such as child marriage
Authors: | Dessy, Sylvain ; Gninafon, Horace ; Tiberti, Luca ; Tiberti, Marco |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource |
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Series: | Policy Research Working Paper ; No. 9736 |
Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Notes: | Africa Africa Western and Central (AFW) Nigeria English |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012701403
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