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The COVID-19 pandemic forced schools and universities to transit from traditional class-based teaching to online … fact that the transition to online teaching has taken place at the beginning of the second semester, while classes were … find that online teaching has reduced students' performance of about 1.4 credits per semester (0.11 Standard Deviations …
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Schools closed extensively during the COVID-19 pandemic and occur in other settings, such as teacher strikes and natural disasters. This paper provides some of the first experimental evidence on strategies to minimize learning loss when schools close. We run a randomized trial of low-technology...
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I study the impact of online instruction on teaching evaluations at a higher education institution in Spain. Using a … difference-in-differences approach, I show that in the semester when teaching moved online, female lecturers were evaluated more … poorly than in previous semesters. The performance of male lecturers was not impacted by the new teaching environment …
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simultaneous equations with regard to the relationship between publications and teaching loads. The study shows that students …
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May in France and Italy, we estimate child fixed effects models to analyze how the lockdown has affected children … interactive methods on children's home learning and emotional status. We find that the lockdown had a stronger negative effect on … lockdown on the learning progresses of both Italian and French kids. …
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performance. Using data from Google Trends in Italy, we find that during the first lockdown, regions with a previously lower … mandates during the 2020/2021 academic year, we report that the patterns detected after the first lockdown were no longer …
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COVID-19 shifted schools and colleges to online instruction with little causal evidence of outcomes. In the fall of 2020, we randomized 551 West Point students in a required Introductory Economics course across twelve instructors to either an online or in-person class. Final grades for online...
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Campus closures due to COVID19 created uneven student-level exposures to the challenges of home-based virtual learning. Using university administrative data, and exogenous class-level differences in pre-pandemic on-campus housing assignments for parallel trend validation, this paper unpacks...
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Teleworking parents can better monitor and help their children with online learning. In this paper, I test whether parents' teleworkability affected children's online learning during Covid school closures. I use panel data from Invalsi, which includes the results of standardized tests given to...
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We study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its side effects on the academic achievement of students in a large university located in a northern Italian region severely affected by the pandemic. Thanks to the richness of our data, we can investigate for the first time the role of two...
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