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Learning at Home: Distance Learning Solutions and Child Development during the COVID-19 Lockdown
Champeaux, Hugues; Mangiavacchi, Lucia; Marchetta, Francesca - 2020
School closures, forced by the COVID-19 crisis in many countries, impacted on children's lives and their learning process. There will likely be substantial and persistent disparities between families in terms of educational outcomes. Distant learning solutions adopted by schools have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322618
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When the Great Equalizer Shuts Down: Schools, Peers, and Parents in Pandemic Times
Agostinelli, Francesco; Doepke, Matthias; Sorrenti, Giuseppe - 2020
What are the effects of school closures during the Covid-19 pandemic on children's education? Online education is an imperfect substitute for in-person learning, particularly for children from low-income families. Peer effects also change: schools allow children from different socio-economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497866
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What Drives Innovation? Lessons from COVID-19 R&D
Agarwal, Ruchir; Gaule, Patrick - 2021
To examine the drivers of innovation, this paper studies the global R&D effort to fight the deadliest diseases and … innovation can be very large, as demonstrated by aggregate flow of clinical trials increasing by 38% in 2020, with limited … economists are naturally in favor of market size as a driving force for innovation (i.e."if the market size is sufficiently large …
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Does Information about Inequality and Discrimination in Early Child Care Affect Policy Preferences?
Hermes, Henning; Lergetporer, Philipp; Mierisch, Fabian; … - 2024
We investigate public preferences for equity-enhancing policies in access to early child care, using a survey experiment with a representative sample of the German population (n ≈ 4, 800). We observe strong misperceptions about migrant-native inequalities in early child care that vary by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533818
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Well-Being throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany: Gendered Effects of Daycare and School Closures
Huebener, Mathias; Waights, Sevrin; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2024
overview of the existing literature and carry out empirical analysis aimed at addressing certain gaps in the knowledge …
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The Extent and Consequences of Teacher Biases against Immigrants
Sahlström, Ellen; Silliman, Mikko - 2024
We study the extent and consequences of biases against immigrants exhibited by high school teachers in Finland. Compared to native students, immigrant students receive 0.06 standard deviation units lower scores from teachers than from blind graders. This effect is almost entirely driven by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533981
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Does Information about Inequality and Discrimination in Early Child Care Affect Policy Preferences?
Hermes, Henning; Lergetporer, Philipp; Mierisch, Fabian; … - 2024
We investigate public preferences for equity-enhancing policies in access to early child care, using a survey experiment with a representative sample of the German population (n ≈ 4,800). We observe strong misperceptions about migrant-native inequalities in early child care that vary by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534327
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The Extent and Consequences of Teacher Biases against Immigrants
Sahlström, Ellen; Silliman, Mikko - 2024
We study the extent and consequences of biases against immigrants exhibited by high school teachers in Finland. Compared to native students, immigrant students receive 0.06 standard deviation units lower scores from teachers than from blind graders. This effect is almost entirely driven by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534443
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Education for All? A Nationwide Audit Study of School Choice
Bergman, Peter; McFarlin, Isaac - 2020
School choice may allow schools to impede access to students perceived as costlier to educate. To test this, we sent emails from fictitious parents to 6,452 charter schools and traditional public schools subject to school choice in 29 states and Washington, D.C. The fictitious parent asked...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207688
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Fathers Matter: Intra-Household Responsibilities and Children's Wellbeing during the COVID-19 Lockdown in Italy
Mangiavacchi, Lucia; Piccoli, Luca; Pieroni, Luca - 2020
The lockdown declared during the Spring 2020 because of the COVID-19 outbreak caused a reallocation of market and household work. A the same time school closures in many countries impacted on children's lives and their learning process. In Italy, schools and nurseries have been closed during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270197