economies: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico. We show that the short-term impact on income inequality and poverty can be …

rates, intergenerational mobility of education, and long-run earnings inequality in eight countries Sub-Saharan Africa. On … completion is higher. However, a small additional impact on girls’ education due to the Covid-19 induced rise in teenage … pregnancy is observed in some countries. Intergenerational mobility of education decreases from 1 to close to 50 percent …

policies on the intergenerational persistence of education in 17 Latin American countries. First, we retrieve detailed … information on school lockdowns and on the policies enacted to support education from home in each country. Then, we use these …

receive an offer to transfer are more likely to be classified as requiring special education and their test scores increase in …

the interventions on college enrollment, graduation, and earnings in adulthood. I show that the career education …

closures on the cohorts of children currently in school. Future earnings- and welfare losses are largest for children that … bottom quartile of the income distribution, welfare losses are ca. 0.8 percentage points larger for the poorer children if … welfare gains for the children and raises future tax revenues approximately sufficient to pay for the cost of this schooling …

closures on the cohorts of children currently in school. Future earnings- and welfare losses are largest for children that … bottom quartile of the income distribution, welfare losses are ca. 0.8 percentage points larger for the poorer children if … welfare gains for the children and raises future tax revenues approximately sufficient to pay for the cost of this schooling …

, that direct taxes and cash transfers are overall progressive and reduce inequality and poverty. Our disaggregated analyses …