Children with poorer parents suffer more, and children of high school educated parents experience the largest welfare losses¶

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q2 i? Children from lower-income households suffer more because a larger share of their educational investment is public, and rich parents increase investment by more than poor parents in response to closures. → Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln 2020 q2 i? Children of high school educated parents experience the largest welfare losses, exceeding those of high school dropout parents, with children of college-educated parents least affected. → Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln 2020 (2)

Evidence¶

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln 2020¶

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Dirk Krueger, Alexander Ludwig, and Irina Popova. (2020). The Long-Term Distributional and Welfare Effects of Covid-19 School Closures. NBER Working Paper 27773. http://www.nber.org/papers/w27773

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Distributional simulation by parental resources: poorer households rely more on public educational investment, and dynamic complementarity gives rich parents higher incentives and more financial resources to compensate.

"Broadly speaking, children with poorer parents suffer more. There are two reasons for this. First, even without any parental adjustments in investments, children from lower income households suffer more from the school closures"

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln 2020 (2)¶

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Dirk Krueger, Alexander Ludwig, and Irina Popova. (2020). The Long-Term Distributional and Welfare Effects of Covid-19 School Closures. NBER Working Paper 27773. http://www.nber.org/papers/w27773

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Simulation by parental education: lower college attendance rates drive welfare losses; college-educated parents mitigate best, while dropout-parent children already had very low college rates, leaving HS-educated-parent children with the largest losses.

"children of high school educated parents (who have sizeable college completion rates prior to the shock) experience the largest welfare losses, exceeding those for children of high school dropout parents"

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

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• Parents endogenously raise investments in response to school closures but do not fully offset the lost public inputs — related
• Average child welfare loss from the schooling and income shock is −0.75% in consumption-equivalent terms, with 87% attributed to the school closures themselves — related
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