COVID-19 Learning loss and recovery: Panel data evidence from India

Serie

  • Economics Working Paper Series, University of California at San Diego

Resumen

  • We use a panel survey of ∼19,000 primary-school-aged children in rural Tamil Nadu to study ‘learning loss’ after COVID-19-induced school closures, and the pace of recovery after schools reopened. Students tested in December 2021 (18 months after school closures) displayed learning deficits of ∼0.73σ in math and 0.34σ in language compared to identically-aged students in the same villages in 2019. Two-thirds of this deficit was made up within 6 months after schools reopened. Further, while learning loss was regressive, recovery was progressive. A government-run after-school remediation program contributed ∼24% of the cohort-level recovery, likely aiding the progressive recovery.

fecha de publicación

  • 2024

Enfoque geográfico

Líneas de investigación

  • COVID-19
  • increasing instructional time
  • learning loss
  • remediation
  • school closures

Issue

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