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Learning losses from school closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic for Thai kindergartners

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  • Kilenthong, Weerachart T.
  • Boonsanong, Khanista
  • Duangchaiyoosook, Sartja
  • Jantorn, Wasinee
  • Khruapradit, Varunee

Abstract

Using a large-scale school readiness survey in Thailand, this paper presents empirical evidence of learning losses from school closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic for kindergartners. Overall results indicate that school closure during the outbreak of COVID-19 causes significant learning losses in cognitive skills, especially in mathematics and working memory. The negative impact is heterogeneous across several dimensions, including child gender, special needs, wealth, private tutoring, caregiver education, and parental absence. This paper also estimates daily learning gains, of which significant results confirm that going to school has significantly benefited young children, especially in receptive language, mathematics, and working memory.

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  • Kilenthong, Weerachart T. & Boonsanong, Khanista & Duangchaiyoosook, Sartja & Jantorn, Wasinee & Khruapradit, Varunee, 2023. "Learning losses from school closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic for Thai kindergartners," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 96(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecoedu:v:96:y:2023:i:c:s0272775723001024
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2023.102455
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    Keywords

    Learning losses; School closure; School readiness; Daily learning gains; COVID-19; COVID slide; Disadvantaged children; Working memory; Math; Literacy; Receptive language; Non-cognitive;
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    JEL classification:

    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
    • I25 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Economic Development
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity

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