Unlabelled: Is remote learning associated with education inequalities? We use PISA 2018 data from five European countries-France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom-to investigate whether education outcomes are related to the possession of the resources needed for distance learning. After controlling for a wide set of covariates, fixed effects, different specifications and testing the stability of coefficients, we find that remote learning is positively associated with average education outcomes, but also with strong and significant education inequalities. Our results show that negative gaps are larger where online schooling is more widespread, across countries, locations, and school types. More generally, remote learning inequalities appear to be associated with technological network externalities: they increase as digital education spreads. Policy makers must guarantee to all students and schools the possession of the resources needed for remote learning, but to reach this goal efficiently they must adapt their actions to the characteristics of countries, areas and school systems. Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10663-022-09556-7.
Beyond the Covid-19 pandemic: remote learning and education inequalities / Luca Bonacini; Marina Murat. - In: EMPIRICA. - ISSN 0340-8744. - ELETTRONICO. - 50:1(2023), pp. 207-236. [10.1007/s10663-022-09556-7]
Beyond the Covid-19 pandemic: remote learning and education inequalities
Luca Bonacini
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2023
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Unlabelled: Is remote learning associated with education inequalities? We use PISA 2018 data from five European countries-France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom-to investigate whether education outcomes are related to the possession of the resources needed for distance learning. After controlling for a wide set of covariates, fixed effects, different specifications and testing the stability of coefficients, we find that remote learning is positively associated with average education outcomes, but also with strong and significant education inequalities. Our results show that negative gaps are larger where online schooling is more widespread, across countries, locations, and school types. More generally, remote learning inequalities appear to be associated with technological network externalities: they increase as digital education spreads. Policy makers must guarantee to all students and schools the possession of the resources needed for remote learning, but to reach this goal efficiently they must adapt their actions to the characteristics of countries, areas and school systems. Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10663-022-09556-7.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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