The effects of differential exposure to COVID-19 on educational outcomes in Guatemala

This paper studies the effects of differential exposure to COVID-19 on educational outcomes in Guatemala. The government adopted a warning index (ranging from 0 to 10) to classify municipalities by infection rates in 2020, which was then used by the Ministry of Education in 2021 to establish a “stop...

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Autores principales: Ham, Andrés, Vazquez, Emmanuel José, Yanez-Pagans, Mónica
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Publicado: 2023
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Ciencias Económicas
Education
Dropout
Promotion
School switching
Government policy
COVID-19
Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/152473
https://www.cedlas.econo.unlp.edu.ar/wp/wp-content/uploads/doc_cedlas313.pdf?dl=0
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spelling I19-R120-10915-1524732023-05-06T04:05:56Z http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/152473 https://www.cedlas.econo.unlp.edu.ar/wp/wp-content/uploads/doc_cedlas313.pdf?dl=0 issn:1853-0168 The effects of differential exposure to COVID-19 on educational outcomes in Guatemala Ham, Andrés Vazquez, Emmanuel José Yanez-Pagans, Mónica 2023-05 2023-05-05T12:36:00Z en Ciencias Económicas Education Dropout Promotion School switching Government policy COVID-19 This paper studies the effects of differential exposure to COVID-19 on educational outcomes in Guatemala. The government adopted a warning index (ranging from 0 to 10) to classify municipalities by infection rates in 2020, which was then used by the Ministry of Education in 2021 to establish a “stoplight” system for in-person instruction. Using administrative panel data for all students in Guatemala, the study employs a difference-in-differences strategy that leverages municipal differences over time in the warning index to estimate the effects of the pandemic on dropout, promotion, and school switching. The results show that municipalities with a higher warning index had significantly larger dropout, lower promotion rates, and a greater share of students switching from private to public schools. These effects were more pronounced during the first year of the pandemic. The findings show differential effects by the level of instruction, with greater losses for younger children in initial and primary education. The results are robust to specification choice, multiple hypothesis adjustments, and placebo experiments, suggesting that the pandemic has had heterogeneous consequences. Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales Articulo Documento de trabajo http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) application/pdf
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topic Ciencias Económicas
Education
Dropout
Promotion
School switching
Government policy
COVID-19
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Education
Dropout
Promotion
School switching
Government policy
COVID-19
Ham, Andrés
Vazquez, Emmanuel José
Yanez-Pagans, Mónica
The effects of differential exposure to COVID-19 on educational outcomes in Guatemala
topic_facet Ciencias Económicas
Education
Dropout
Promotion
School switching
Government policy
COVID-19
description This paper studies the effects of differential exposure to COVID-19 on educational outcomes in Guatemala. The government adopted a warning index (ranging from 0 to 10) to classify municipalities by infection rates in 2020, which was then used by the Ministry of Education in 2021 to establish a “stoplight” system for in-person instruction. Using administrative panel data for all students in Guatemala, the study employs a difference-in-differences strategy that leverages municipal differences over time in the warning index to estimate the effects of the pandemic on dropout, promotion, and school switching. The results show that municipalities with a higher warning index had significantly larger dropout, lower promotion rates, and a greater share of students switching from private to public schools. These effects were more pronounced during the first year of the pandemic. The findings show differential effects by the level of instruction, with greater losses for younger children in initial and primary education. The results are robust to specification choice, multiple hypothesis adjustments, and placebo experiments, suggesting that the pandemic has had heterogeneous consequences.
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