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COVID-19 and Education - Simon Burgess Economics

COVID-19 and Education

COVID-19 & Education

Please find below my writing on the impact of Covid-19 on education in England.

Scientific Papers

These papers are freely available to everyone.

Balancing the risk of pupils returning to school DELVE/Royal Society Report, 24/7/2020
How can we make up the Learning Losses from Lockdown? Economics Observatory 15/6/2020

Policy writing

These links are to short (-ish) blog posts written to highlight interesting findings or to comment on education policy.

There can be no "levelling up" without education recovery (June 2021)
What can we learn from Covid transmission in schools from teacher absence figures? (January 2021)
New attendance figures paint a worrying picture of mass absences. (December 2020)
Learning loss: the National Tutoring Programme for England is a valuable step – but may not go far enough (November 2020)
Pupils in the poorest areas of the country are missing the most schooling (October 2020)
Educational Inequalities: Beyond COVID (slides). Royal Statistical Society International Conference. September 2020
When Should Schools Re-open? Economics Observatory 29/5/2020
The Covid Crisis and Educational Inequality Academy of Social Sciences 20/5/20
Education and Lockdown: Skills, Transitions and Inequalities (slides) (video) Royal Economic Society Webinar series on Covid-19 7/5/20
School is out: does it hurt us? Discover Economics 30/4/2020
BBC Radio 4 Briefing Room Show on Lockdown and Inequality BBC/4/2020
Schools, skills, and learning: The impact of COVID-19 on education VOX-EU, 1/4/2020
The long term consequences of missing a term of school IZA 31/3/2020