Analyses of the Costs and Benefits of School Closures for the Containment of COVID-19
- Funded by Volkswagen Stiftung
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Key facts
Disease
COVID-19start year
2020Funder
Volkswagen StiftungPrincipal Investigator
Dr and Priv-Doz Dr Guido Neidhöfer, Maximilian Bach, Friedhelm PfeifferResearch Location
GermanyLead Research Institution
ZEW Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH (ZEW)Research Priority Alignment
N/A
Research Category
Secondary impacts of disease, response & control measures
Research Subcategory
Social impacts
Special Interest Tags
N/A
Study Type
Non-Clinical
Clinical Trial Details
N/A
Broad Policy Alignment
Pending
Age Group
Children (1 year to 12 years)
Vulnerable Population
Unspecified
Occupations of Interest
Unspecified
Abstract
The aim of the project is to empirically assess the costs and benefits of school closures enacted in response to the spread of COVID-19. Benefits are measured by the lives saved by the interventions. The considered costs result from learning gaps suffered by children of different socio-economic groups (paying special attention to vulnerable children) and the implications for educational inequality.