offers a comparative overview of the incidence and determinants of loneliness and social isolation in Europe in the pre …-COVID-19 period. The empirical results indicate that 8.6% of the adult population in Europe suffer from frequent loneliness and … 20.8% from social isolation, with eastern Europe recording the highest prevalence of both phenomena. Trends over time do …

education performance decline in Europe by providing information on 20 year reading achievement trends, average performance … Europe by first comparing countries' education distributions between 2016 and 2021 and second by investigating changes in the …

-19 crisis across Europe. We obtain the relative trajectories of children's learning loss and its unequal distribution … on 4th graders' school achievements indicate that throughout Europe educational inequalities between and within countries …