We find that, when officials relax school attendance policy as a prophylactic measure against an epidemic, students of … limited out-of-school resources may be less likely to distance themselves from school during an epidemic … higher early high school performance take more absences, while students of lower early high school performance keep going to …

School shutdown due to the global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can lead to an increase in education … school students and their parents from Shaanxi to explore parental socioeconomic status that enlarges the educational gap … during the pandemic. Comparing students’ test scores before and after the school shutdown by parental characteristics, we …