Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/266693 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 1206
Publisher: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen
Abstract: 
The effect of school closures in the spring of 2020 on the math, science, and reading skills of secondary school students in Poland is estimated. The COVID-19-induced school closures lasted 26 weeks in Poland, one of Europe's longest periods of shutdown. Comparison of the learning outcomes with pre- and post-COVID-19 samples shows that the learning loss was equal to more than one year of study. Assuming a 45-year working life of the total affected population, the economic loss in future student earnings may amount to 7.2 percent of Poland's gross domestic product.
Subjects: 
COVID-19
school closure
learning loss
Poland
JEL: 
I21
I24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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