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Estimating the Effects of Regulating University Face-to-Face Lectures on the Spread of COVID-19: Evidence from Japan

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  • Michinao Okachi
  • Haewon Youn

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Universities are the only institutions that have conducted most lectures online during the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, but no researcher has analyzed the effects of nonface-to-face lectures on containing the spread of the novel coronavirus. This study is the ?first attempt to estimate these effects. Applying a multiple-event study negative binomial regression model, we fi?nd that changing the ratio of online lectures had only slight effects on the numbers of COVID-19 infections among university students. For example, if universities regulate almost all lectures in-person from lectures consisting of more than a half of in-person style, the number of student infections declined by 5.5 per 10,000 students between seven weeks prior and posterior to the change. Other lecture style changes show milder di?erences than this. Considering these results, min- imizing or restricting face-to-face lectures does not appear to be particularly effective for preventing the spread of the coronavirus.

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  • Michinao Okachi & Haewon Youn, 2022. "Estimating the Effects of Regulating University Face-to-Face Lectures on the Spread of COVID-19: Evidence from Japan," TUPD Discussion Papers 9, Graduate School of Economics and Management, Tohoku University.
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