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Pré-Publication, Document De Travail (Working Paper) Année : 2023

Persistent and Gender-Unequal Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Student Outcomes in Italy

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The learning loss caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on students’ outcomes is likely to have lasting effects on which evidence is lacking. Using a differencein-differences design through a triple difference estimator, we identify the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on Italian students’ test scores in the two years following the COVID-19 outbreak. Our findings indicate a persistently negative effect on mathematics and reading scores for grade 5 and grade 8 students in 2021–22, two years after the pandemic began, despite a statistically significant recovery compared to the previous school year. Our analysis highlights the pandemic’s disproportionate impact on girls, leading to a decrease in their academic performance and an intensification of gender-based inequalities (with the exception of grade 8 reading). Our results also show that the pandemic had a greater adverse impact on the academic achievement of students who experienced more prolonged classroom closures.
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hal-04275829 , version 1 (08-11-2023)

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Léonard Moulin, Mara Soncin. Persistent and Gender-Unequal Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Student Outcomes in Italy. 2023. ⟨hal-04275829⟩
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