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Will the Covid-19 Pandemic Leave a Lasting Legacy in Children’s Skill Development?

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  • Katharina Werner
  • Ludger Woessmann

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For school children, the Covid-19 pandemic brought school closures that challenged their learning experiences and social-distancing rules that impeded their peer interactions. Will these experiences have persistent effects on the development of children’s cognitive and socio-emotional skills? We summarize the available evidence on how the pandemic affected the educational inputs provided by children, parents, and schools, how it impacted children’s cognitive and socio-emotional development, and what this means for later economic outcomes. There is clear evidence that the Covid-19 pandemic seriously impeded the cognitive and socio-emotional development of many children. If remediation fails, these skill losses are likely to reduce skill development, lifetime income, and economic growth and increase educational and economic inequality in the long run.

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  • Katharina Werner & Ludger Woessmann, 2021. "Will the Covid-19 Pandemic Leave a Lasting Legacy in Children’s Skill Development?," CESifo Forum, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, vol. 22(06), pages 33-40, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:ces:ifofor:v:22:y:2021:i:06:p:33-40
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    1. Karl Ulrich Mayer, 2022. "Aspects of a sociology of the pandemic: Inequalities and the life course," Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, vol. 20(1), pages 15-37.

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