Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/267264 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 10031
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We use a panel survey of ∼19,000 primary-school-aged children in rural Tamil Nadu to study 'learning loss' after COVID-19-induced school closures, and the pace of recovery after schools reopened. Students tested in December 2021 (18 months after school closures) displayed learning deficits of ∼0.7σ in math and 0.34σ in language compared to identically-aged students in the same villages in 2019. Two-thirds of this deficit was made up within 6 months after school reopening. Further, while learning loss was regressive, the recovery was progressive. A government-run after-school remediation program contributed ∼24% of the cohort-level recovery, and likely aided the progressive recovery.
Subjects: 
Covid-19
school closures
learning loss
recovery
JEL: 
H52
I21
I25
O15
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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