Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/227790 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Working Paper Series No. 2020-09
Publisher: 
University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), Colchester
Abstract: 
Parents and schools were caught unprepared during the COVID-19 school closure. Since schools have a key role in creating equal opportunities, transferring schooling to families is likely to increase learning inequalities. Using the Understandings Society COVID-19 dataset, we find children who received free school meals, children from lower-educated and singleparent families and children with Pakistani or Bangladeshi backgrounds devote significantly less time to schoolwork at home. Schools' provisions of offline and online distance teaching and homework checking significantly increase the time children spend on home learning and mitigate most of the disadvantages.
Subjects: 
Home learning
educational inequalities
schools
COVID-19
school closure
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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