effect of school closures on the ability of children from different countries and backgrounds to engage in continued learning … weekly school closure information from February 2020 to February 2022, and high-frequency phone survey data collected by the … World Bank during the pandemic to assess the incidence and quality of continued learning during periods of school closures …

Using microsimulations, we nowcast the impact of learning losses caused by COVID-19 on secondary school completion … average, secondary school completion rates decrease by 12 percentage points overall and by 16 points for children with low …-educated parents. Interestingly, in most countries the gender gap diminishes because for men the projected decrease in secondary school …