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COVID-19, school closures, and student learning outcomes : new global evidence from PISA
Jakubowski, Maciej; Gajderowicz, Tomasz; Patrinos, … - 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in significant disruption in schooling worldwide. This paper uses global test score data to estimate learning losses. It models the effect of school closures on achievement by predicting the deviation of the most recent results from a linear trend using data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014461554
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COVID-19, school closures, and student learning outcomes : new global evidence from PISA
Jakubowski, Maciej; Gajderowicz, Tomasz; Patrinos, … - 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in significant disruption in schooling worldwide. This paper uses global test score data to estimate learning losses. It models the effect of school closures on achievement by predicting the deviation of the most recent results from a linear trend using data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014464439
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COVID-19, School Closures, and Student Learning Outcomes: New Global Evidence from PISA
Jakubowski, Maciej; Gajderowicz, Tomasz; Patrinos, Harry A. - 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in significant disruption in schooling worldwide. This paper uses global test score data to estimate learning losses. It models the effect of school closures on achievement by predicting the deviation of the most recent results from a linear trend using data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533874
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Quantifying the macroeconomic impact of Covid-19-related school closures through the human capital channel
De la Maisonneuve, Christine; Égert, Balázs; Turner, David - 2023
This paper uses a new measure of human capital, which distinguishes both quality and quantity components, to estimate the long-term effect of the Covid-19-related school closures on aggregate productivity through the human capital channel. Productivity losses build up over time and are estimated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014252528
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Quantifying the Macroeconomic Impact of Covid-19-Related School Closures through the Human Capital Channel
de la Maisonneuve, Christine; Egert, Balazs; Turner, David - 2023
This paper uses a new measure of human capital, which distinguishes both quality and quantity components, to estimate the long-term effect of the Covid-19-related school closures on aggregate productivity through the human capital channel. Productivity losses build up over time and are estimated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290306
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Inequalities in education across Canada : lessons for the pandemic
Haeck, Catherine; Lefebvre, Pierre - 2020
cognitive skills. In this article, we document the evolution of the cognitive skills gap across Canada using PISA data. We use … PISA tests scores over 7 cycles, from 2000 to 2018, to provide an exhaustive portrait of the evolution of the tests scores … differences in PISA scores, in reading, maths and science, are large but unwavering. In other words inequality by SES is stable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219488
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The impact of the war on human capital and productivity in Ukraine
Égert, Balázs; De la Maisonneuve, Christine - 2023
In addition to the humanitarian suffering and huge immediate economic costs, the war in Ukraine will have long-term consequences, among which are losses in human capital that will impact aggregate productivity for many years. Exploiting a new stock measure of human capital combining the quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014304472
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Private Schooling after a Year of COVID-19 : How the Private Sector Has Fared and How to Keep It Healthy
McCluskey, Neal - 2021
As COVID-19 struck the United States in March 2020, sending the nation into lockdown, worry about the fate of private schools was high. These schools, which only survive if people can pay for them, seemed to face deep trouble. Many private schools have thin financial margins even in good...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013232117
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Post COVID-19 Test Score Recovery : Initial Evidence from State Testing Data
Halloran, Clare; Hug, Claire E.; Jack, Rebecca; Oster, Emily - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic caused significant disruption in schooling in the U.S., and student test scores showed dramatic declines by the end of the 2020-21 school year. We use state test score data to analyze patterns of test score recovery over the 2021-22 school year. On average, we find that 20%...
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School closures, shelter use, and learning outcomes in the Philippines : evidence from 2019 TIMSS
Abrigo, Michael Ralph M.; Francisco, Kris A.; Santos, … - 2024
In many parts of the world, schools are often used as temporary shelters before, during, and after disasters that may prolong calamity-induced school closures. In this study, we combined student assessment data from the Philippine round of the 2019 Trends in International Mathematics and Science...
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