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 effec...

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Main Authors:	Dessy, Sylvain, Gninafon, Horace, Tiberti, Luca, Tiberti, Marco
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
Subjects:	SCHOOL CLOSURE LOCKDOWN SCHOOL ATTENDANCE CORONAVIRUS COVID-19 ACCESS TO EDUCATION REMOTE LEARNING DISTANCE LEARNING DROPOUT RATE GENDER INEQUALITY GENDER EQUITY
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/458201627312906369/COVID-19-and-Children-s-School-Resilience-Evidence-from-Nigeria http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36036

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spelling	okr-10986-360362021-09-08T13:40:32Z 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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topic	SCHOOL CLOSURE LOCKDOWN SCHOOL ATTENDANCE CORONAVIRUS COVID-19 ACCESS TO EDUCATION REMOTE LEARNING DISTANCE LEARNING DROPOUT RATE GENDER INEQUALITY GENDER EQUITY
spellingShingle	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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description	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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author	Dessy, Sylvain Gninafon, Horace Tiberti, Luca Tiberti, Marco
author_facet	Dessy, Sylvain Gninafon, Horace Tiberti, Luca Tiberti, Marco
author_sort	Dessy, Sylvain
title	COVID-19 and Children’s School Resilience : Evidence from Nigeria
title_short	COVID-19 and Children’s School Resilience : Evidence from Nigeria
title_full	COVID-19 and Children’s School Resilience : Evidence from Nigeria
title_fullStr	COVID-19 and Children’s School Resilience : Evidence from Nigeria
title_full_unstemmed	COVID-19 and Children’s School Resilience : Evidence from Nigeria
title_sort	covid-19 and children’s school resilience : evidence from nigeria
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2021
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/458201627312906369/COVID-19-and-Children-s-School-Resilience-Evidence-from-Nigeria http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36036
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COVID-19 and Children’s School Resilience : Evidence from Nigeria

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