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information campaigns - rather than stay-at-home requirements. Using past coronavirus outbreaks as an instrumental variable, we …
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School closures, forced by the COVID-19 crisis in many countries, impacted on children's lives and their learning …. Distant learning solutions adopted by schools have been heterogeneous over countries, within countries and between school … levels.As a consequence, most of the burden of children's learning fell on their parents, with likely uneven results …
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School closures induced by the COVID-19 pandemic led to concerns about student learning. This paper evaluates the … effect of school closures on student learning in Uzbekistan, using a unique dataset that allows assessing change in learning … over time. The findings show that test scores in math for grade 5 students improved over time by 0.29 standard deviation …
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exacerbating existing learning gaps. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of an intervention implemented in Italian middle … schools that provides free individual tutoring online to disadvantaged students during lock-down. Tutors are university … students who volunteer for 3 to 6 hours per week. They were randomly assigned to middle school students, from a list of …
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We evaluate the causal effect of class size (i.e., number of students in a classroom) on incidence of class closure due … to flu epidemic in 2015, 2016, and 2017, applying an instrumental variable method with the Maimonides rule to … administrative data of public primary and middle school students in one of the largest municipalities within the City of Tokyo …
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Many studies examine the importance of teachers in students' learning, but few exist on the contribution of principals …
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A universal testing and isolation policy is the most viable way to vanquish a pandemic. Its implementation requires: (i) an epidemiological rather than clinical approach to testing, sacrificing accuracy for scalability, convenience and speed; and (ii) state intervention to ramp up production,...
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Epidemics may have social scarring effects, increasing the likelihood of social unrest. They may also have mitigating effect, suppressing unrest by dissuading social activities. Using a new monthly panel on social unrest in 130 countries, we find a positive cross-sectional relationship between...
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Voluntary and government-mandated lockdowns in response to COVID-19 have caused causing drastic reductions in economic activity around the world. We present a parsimonious two-country-SIR model with some degree of substitutability between home and foreign goods, and show that trading partners'...
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We use UK transaction-level data during the Covid-19 pandemic to study whether mortgage payment holidays (PH) can act as a mechanism for smoothing household consumption following negative aggregate shocks. Our results suggest that mortgage PH were accessed by both households with pre-existing...
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