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VideoJuly 9, 2020

The Long-term Impacts of School Closures

School closures due to COVID-19 have left over a billion students out of school. The potential impacts are wide-ranging. Disruptions to schooling and the resulting learning losses¡ªfrom shocks to schooling and incomes, from unequal access to remedial measures such as distance learning, and from subsequent inequalities once students return to school¡ªcould be large. In this webinar on July 9, 2020, Jishnu Das (Professor, Georgetown University) and Jo?o Pedro Azevedo (Lead Economist, аIJʿª½±) presented two approaches to understand these processes and model their potential magnitude.