Covid-19 Learning Loss And Recovery: Panel Data Evidence From India

Serie

• NBER Working Papers

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 ~0.7σ standard deviations in math and ~0.34σ standard deviations 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 school reopening. Further, while learning loss was regressive, the recovery was progressive. A government-run after-school remediation program contributed ~24% of the cohort-level recovery, and likely aided the progressive recovery.

autores

• Muralidharan, Karthik
• Romero, Mauricio
• Singh, Abhijeet

fecha de publicación

• 2022

Área temática

• H52 - Gasto público de la administración y educación
• I21 - Análisis de la educación
• I25 - Educación y desarrollo económico
• O15 - Recursos humanos; Desarrollo humano; Distribución de la renta; Migraciones

Enfoque geográfico

• Asia  Continent
• India  Country

Issue

• 30552