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The different effects of Covid on children with parents in teleworkable and non-teleworkable occupations

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  • Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll

    (ESOMAS Department (University of Turin) and Collegio Carlo Alberto)

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Covid school closures and the switch to online learning have had long-lasting detrimental effects on students. These adverse effects differ according to children’s family background. Teleworking parents can better monitor and help their children with online learning. In this paper, I test whether parents’ teleworkability affected children’s online learning during Covid school closures. I use panel data from INVALSI, the National Institute for the Evaluation of the School System, which includes the results of standardized tests given to all Italian students in grades 2 and 5 as well as parental characteristics. I compare children’s performance in grade 5, controlling for performance in grade 2, along two dimensions: whether they experienced Covid school closures between grade 2 and grade 5 and whether their parents work in teleworkable occupations. I also exploit variations in the length of Covid school closures across Italian regions. My results show that experiencing 100 school closure days widens the gap between children of teleworkable and non-teleworkable parents in language tests by 0.02 standard deviations, while no robust effect arises for maths tests.

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  • Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll, 2025. "The different effects of Covid on children with parents in teleworkable and non-teleworkable occupations," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 38(1), pages 1-28, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:jopoec:v:38:y:2025:i:1:d:10.1007_s00148-025-01093-4
    DOI: 10.1007/s00148-025-01093-4
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    Keywords

    COVID-19; School closures; Online learning; Educational inequality; Parental teleworkability;
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    JEL classification:

    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
    • I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
    • J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
    • J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes

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