COVID-19 and Children’s School Resilience : Evidence from Nigeria
This paper analyzes the impact of COVID-19 lockdown measures on children's school resilience. Using an individual fixed-effect linear probability model on Nigeria data, it exploits the quasi-randomness of these measures to estimate their effect on school attendance after the lockdown was lifted. The results show that COVID-19 lockdown measures reduced children's probability of attending school after the school system reopened. This negative impact increased with children's age, reaching a peak among those whose education was no longer compulsory. For schoolchildren in that age group, the negative effect of COVID-19 lockdown measures is likely to be permanent, which, if not reversed, will undermine the quality of the economy-wide future labor force. The paper also finds evidence that in the child marriage-prone North-West part of Nigeria that these measures increased gender inequality in education among children aged 12 to 18. This result suggests that COVID-19 lockdown measures may exacerbate harmful traditional practices such as child marriage.
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dig-okr-10986360362021-09-08T13:40:32Z COVID-19 and Children’s School Resilience : Evidence from Nigeria Dessy, Sylvain Gninafon, Horace Tiberti, Luca Tiberti, Marco SCHOOL CLOSURE LOCKDOWN SCHOOL ATTENDANCE CORONAVIRUS COVID-19 ACCESS TO EDUCATION REMOTE LEARNING DISTANCE LEARNING DROPOUT RATE GENDER INEQUALITY GENDER EQUITY This paper analyzes the impact of COVID-19 lockdown measures on children's school resilience. Using an individual fixed-effect linear probability model on Nigeria data, it exploits the quasi-randomness of these measures to estimate their effect on school attendance after the lockdown was lifted. The results show that COVID-19 lockdown measures reduced children's probability of attending school after the school system reopened. This negative impact increased with children's age, reaching a peak among those whose education was no longer compulsory. For schoolchildren in that age group, the negative effect of COVID-19 lockdown measures is likely to be permanent, which, if not reversed, will undermine the quality of the economy-wide future labor force. The paper also finds evidence that in the child marriage-prone North-West part of Nigeria that these measures increased gender inequality in education among children aged 12 to 18. This result suggests that COVID-19 lockdown measures may exacerbate harmful traditional practices such as child marriage. 2021-07-29T12:35:03Z 2021-07-29T12:35:03Z 2021-07 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/458201627312906369/COVID-19-and-Children-s-School-Resilience-Evidence-from-Nigeria http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36036 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9736 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Africa Western and Central (AFW) Nigeria |
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SCHOOL CLOSURE LOCKDOWN SCHOOL ATTENDANCE CORONAVIRUS COVID-19 ACCESS TO EDUCATION REMOTE LEARNING DISTANCE LEARNING DROPOUT RATE GENDER INEQUALITY GENDER EQUITY SCHOOL CLOSURE LOCKDOWN SCHOOL ATTENDANCE CORONAVIRUS COVID-19 ACCESS TO EDUCATION REMOTE LEARNING DISTANCE LEARNING DROPOUT RATE GENDER INEQUALITY GENDER EQUITY Dessy, Sylvain Gninafon, Horace Tiberti, Luca Tiberti, Marco COVID-19 and Children’s School Resilience : Evidence from Nigeria |
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This paper analyzes the impact of
COVID-19 lockdown measures on children's school
resilience. Using an individual fixed-effect linear
probability model on Nigeria data, it exploits the
quasi-randomness of these measures to estimate their effect
on school attendance after the lockdown was lifted. The
results show that COVID-19 lockdown measures reduced
children's probability of attending school after the
school system reopened. This negative impact increased with
children's age, reaching a peak among those whose
education was no longer compulsory. For schoolchildren in
that age group, the negative effect of COVID-19 lockdown
measures is likely to be permanent, which, if not reversed,
will undermine the quality of the economy-wide future labor
force. The paper also finds evidence that in the child
marriage-prone North-West part of Nigeria that these
measures increased gender inequality in education among
children aged 12 to 18. This result suggests that COVID-19
lockdown measures may exacerbate harmful traditional
practices such as child marriage. |
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SCHOOL CLOSURE LOCKDOWN SCHOOL ATTENDANCE CORONAVIRUS COVID-19 ACCESS TO EDUCATION REMOTE LEARNING DISTANCE LEARNING DROPOUT RATE GENDER INEQUALITY GENDER EQUITY |
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Dessy, Sylvain Gninafon, Horace Tiberti, Luca Tiberti, Marco |
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Dessy, Sylvain Gninafon, Horace Tiberti, Luca Tiberti, Marco |
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COVID-19 and Children’s School Resilience : Evidence from Nigeria |
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COVID-19 and Children’s School Resilience : Evidence from Nigeria |
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COVID-19 and Children’s School Resilience : Evidence from Nigeria |
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COVID-19 and Children’s School Resilience : Evidence from Nigeria |
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COVID-19 and Children’s School Resilience : Evidence from Nigeria |
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covid-19 and children’s school resilience : evidence from nigeria |
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