School District and Community Factors and the Impact of COVID-19 School Closures on Chronic Absenteeism
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Date
2024-11
Authors
Espinoza, Juan
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Publisher
University of Oregon
Abstract
This study uses school district level variation in COVID closures and census data to quantify the effects that virtual and hybrid instruction had on the increases in post-pandemic chronic absenteeism. We find statistically significant evidence of a positive relationship with our best model estimating that each 1% increase in the proportion of the 2020/2021 school year spent away from fully in-person instruction increased chronic absenteeism by 0.20%, after controlling for race, income, education, school expenditures, and family structure. This thesis includes collaboratively produced work.
Description
45 pages
Keywords
COVID-19, Absenteeism, Regression analysis, Online learning, Casual inference