We examine the role of school closures in contributing to the negative labor market impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic …. We collect detailed daily information on school closures at the school-district level, which we merge to individual level … 2019 through May 2020. Using a difference-in-differences estimation approach, we gauge how the intensity of school closures …

parents' teleworkability affected children's online learning during Covid school closures. I use panel data from Invalsi … Covid school closures between grade 2 and grade 5 and whether their parents work in teleworkable occupations. I also exploit … show that one hundred school closure days widens the gap between children of teleworkable and nonteleworkable parents by 0 …

Does after-school care provision promote mothers' employment and balance the allocation of paid work among parents of … schoolchildren? We address this question by exploiting variation in cantonal (state) regulations of after-school care provision in … methods, we find a positive impact of after-school care provision on mothers' full-time employment, but a negative impact on …

collect detailed time-use information on students before and during the school closures in a survey of 1,099 parents in …In spring 2020, governments around the globe shut down schools to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus. We … argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of educator support during school closures. We …

COVID-19 has uprooted many aspects of parents' daily routines, from their jobs to their childcare arrangements. In this … paper, we provide a novel description of how parents in England living in two-parent opposite-gender families are spending …

What are the effects of school closures during the Covid-19 pandemic on children's education? Online education is an … closed. Another factor is the response of parents, some of whom compensate for the changed environment through their own … skill formation. We find that school closures have a large and persistent effect on educational outcomes that is highly …

This paper estimates the effect of a full year of the COVID-19 pandemic on school performance, focusing on students at … the end of upper secondary school who are about to enter the labour market or start university without having had the … mathematics and reading (approximately 0.4 s.d. in both domains). Low-achieving pupils suffered the most, increasing the gap …

What are the effects of school and daycare facility closures during the COVID-19 pandemic on parental well-being and … policies did not considerably affect parents' life satisfaction, partnership satisfaction or mental health, they have been … observed increase in negative and potentially harmful parenting behavior is largely directly caused by school and daycare …

Social distancing requirements associated with COVID-19 have led to school closures. In April, 192 countries had closed … findings show that the school closures reduce future earnings. It is also likely that students from low-income countries will … after four months, with schools re-opening in the new academic year, and that school quality will not suffer …

We study whether the onset of the COVID-19 crisis affected the program choices of high school applicants in Sweden. Our …. Using school-level data on applicants' top-ranked programs for all admission rounds between 2016 and 2020, we implement a …