Assessing School District Decision-Making. Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Autor/inn/en	Christian, Alvin; Jacob, Brian Aaron; Singleton, John D.
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research
Titel	Assessing School District Decision-Making. Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Quelle	Cambridge, Mass.: National Bureau of Economic Research (2022), 50 S. PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	NBER working paper series. w30520
Beigaben	Illustrationen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
DOI	10.3386/w30520
Schlagwörter	Schule; Epidemie; Arbeitspapier; USA
Abstract	The COVID-19 pandemic drew new attention to the role of school boards in the U.S. In this paper, we examine school districts' choices of learning modality--whether and when to offer in-person, virtual, or hybrid instruction--over the course of the 2020-21 pandemic school year. The analysis takes advantage of granular weekly data on learning mode and COVID-19 cases for Ohio school districts. We show that districts respond on the margin to health risks: all else equal, a marginal increase in new cases reduces the probability that a district offers in-person instruction the next week. Moreover, this negative response is magnified when the district was in-person the prior week and attenuates in magnitude over the school year. These findings are consistent with districts learning from experience about the effect of in-person learning on disease transmission in schools. We also find evidence that districts are influenced by the decisions of their peers.
Erfasst von	ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel
Update	2023/1