and students’ cognitive and socio-emotional development. The German panel evidence shows that children’s learning time …If school closures and social-distancing experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic impeded children’s skill development …, they may leave a lasting legacy in human capital. To understand the pandemic’s effects on school children, this paper …

-achieving students. The reduction in learning time was not larger for children from lower-educated parents, but it was larger for boys … collect detailed time-use information on students before and during the school closures in a survey of 1,099 parents in … argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of educator support during school closures. We …

addressing unobserved residence-country features, we find similar results when assigning migrant students their country …

. The results show that substituting lacking family support by other adults can help disadvantaged children at adolescent …

addressing unobserved residence-country features, we find similar results when assigning migrant students their country …

Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary …