Journal article
School Enrollments during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of New York
Economics letters, Vol.219, 110792
10/01/2022
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110792
PMCID: PMC9375254
Abstract
This study extends the earlier literature on changes in school enrollment in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic by using data for the second COVID-19 school year (2021–2022) from the state of New York. Contrary to expectations that the resumption of fully-live instruction would reverse the first COVID-19 year’s declines in public school enrollment, we find that enrollment continued to drop sharply in the second COVID-19 school year, when schools were entirely back to in-person learning. These declines in enrollment vary substantially by grade, race and poverty and are robust to controlling for other COVID-19 related factors. In addition, we find mixed results for the number of private school students but significant increases in home-schooled students in the two COVID-19 years. The findings have important educational and fiscal implications.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- School Enrollments during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of New York
- Creators
- Joydeep RoyPhuong Nguyen-Hoang
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Economics letters, Vol.219, 110792
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110792
- PMCID
- PMC9375254
- ISSN
- 0165-1765
- eISSN
- 1873-7374
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/01/2022
- Academic Unit
- School of Planning and Public Affairs; Public Policy Center (Archive)
- Record Identifier
- 9984391226802771
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