Person(s):
Bismarck-Osten, Clara von
;
Borusyak, Kirill
;
Schönberg, Uta
Institution(s):
RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Title:
The role of schools in transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus
Subtitle:
quasi-experimental evidence from Germany
Publisher(s):
Essen, Germany : RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
|
Bochum, Germany : Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), Department of Economics
Document type:
Online Resource
Physical description:
1 Online-Ressource (43 Seiten) Illustrationen
Collective title(s):
Ruhr economic papers ; #882
Identifier:
urn:nbn:de:hbz:6:2-1428088
Identifier:
10419/227107
Identifier:
10.4419/96973021
Parallel edition(s):
Äquivalent
Erscheint auch als: Druck-Ausgabe: 978-3-96973-021-8
Footnote:
Zusammenfassung in deutscher Sprache
Subject(s):
Schule
;
COVID-19
Abstract:
This paper considers the role of school closures in the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. To isolate the impact of the closures from other containment measures and identify a causal effect, we exploit variation in the start and end dates of the summer school and fall holiday across the 16 federal states in Germany. Leveraging a difference-in-differences design with staggered adoption, we show that neither the summer closures nor the closures in the fall have had any significant containing effect on the spread of SARS-CoV-2 among children or any spill-over effect on older generations. We also do not find any evidence that schools returning to full capacity after the summer holidays increased infections among children or adults. Instead, we find the number of children infected increased during the last weeks of the summer holiday and decreased in the first weeks after schools reopen, a pattern we attribute to travel returnees and increased testing.
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