Assessing School District Decision-Making: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic. Working Paper 30520

Autor/inn/en	Christian, Alvin; Jacob, Brian; Singleton, John D.
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Titel	Assessing School District Decision-Making: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic. Working Paper 30520
Quelle	(2022) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	COVID-19; Pandemics; School Districts; Adjustment (to Environment); Distance Education; Blended Learning; In Person Learning; Disease Control; Peer Influence; Decision Making; Ohio + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? School district; Schulbezirk; Distance study; Distance learning; Fernunterricht; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung
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. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01