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Aggregate and Distributional Effects of School Closure Mitigation Policies: Public versus Private Education

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  • Lukas Mahler

  • Minchul Yum

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We use a human capital formation model to compare extending school time to private education subsidies in mitigating the adverse effects of school closures. The impact on inequality and mobility depends crucially on the substitutability between private and public inputs.

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  • Lukas Mahler & Minchul Yum, 2024. "Aggregate and Distributional Effects of School Closure Mitigation Policies: Public versus Private Education," CRC TR 224 Discussion Paper Series crctr224_2024_539, University of Bonn and University of Mannheim, Germany.
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    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity

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