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VIRTUAL EVENT: COVID-19: School closures and educational inequality
07 October 2020, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
In this webinar, Larissa Zierow discusses how school closures in response to the coronavirus have affected educational inequalities.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Dingeman Wiertz
In Spring 2020, governments around the globe shut down schools to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus.
Larissa Zierow and her colleagues conducted a study of over 1,000 parents in Germany, collecting detailed time-use information on school children before and during the COVID-19 school closures.
In this session, Larissa will explore the key findings of the survey such as the reduced learning times and the increase of educational inequality. She will discuss how schools dealt with this gap and how distance-teaching activities disproportionately reached high-achieving children.
QSS seminar series
In this weekly Quantitative Social Science (QSS) seminar series, speakers present research that falls under the broad umbrella of quantitative social science.
Links
- QSS seminar series
- Quantitative Social Science
- Centre for Longitudinal Studies
- Social Research Institute
Image: Robert Cutts via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)
About the Speaker
Larissa Zierow
Economist and Deputy Director at Center for the Economics of Education at the ifo Institute
Larissa's research revolves around labour, family, and education economics.
More about Larissa ZierowOther events in this series