The Revealed Preferences for School Reopening. Evidence from Public-School Disenrollment.

Autor/inn/en	Dee, Thomas S.; Huffaker, Elizabeth; Phillips, Cheryl; Sagara, Eric
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research
Titel	The Revealed Preferences for School Reopening. Evidence from Public-School Disenrollment.
Quelle	Cambridge, Mass.: National Bureau of Economic Research (2021), [34] S. PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	NBER working paper series. w29156
Beigaben	Illustrationen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
DOI	10.3386/w29156
Schlagwörter	Schule; Telearbeit; Arbeitspapier; USA
Abstract	Before the 2020-21 school year, educators, policymakers, and parents confronted the stark and uncertain trade-offs implied by the health, educational, and economic consequences of offering instruction remotely, in person, or through a hybrid of the two. Most public schools in the U.S. chose remote-only instruction and enrollment fell dramatically (i.e., a loss of roughly 1.1 million K-12 students). We examine the impact of these choices on public-school enrollment using unique panel data that combine district-level enrollment trajectories with information on their instructional modes. We find offering remote-only instead of in-person instruction reduced enrollment by 1.1 percentage points (i.e., a 42 percent increase in disenrollment from -2.6 to -3.7 percent). The disenrollment effects of remote instruction are concentrated in kindergarten and, to a lesser extent, elementary schools. We do not find consistent evidence that remote instruction influenced middle or high-school enrollment or that hybrid instruction had an impact.
Erfasst von	ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel
Update	2022/1