Educational inequalities during COVID-19: results from longitudinal surveys in Sub-Saharan Africa

Dang, Hai-Anh H., Oseni, Gbemisola and Abanokova, Kseniya (2025) Educational inequalities during COVID-19: results from longitudinal surveys in Sub-Saharan Africa. International Journal of Educational Development, 112. ISSN 0738-0593

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Abstract

While the literature on the COVID-19 pandemic is growing, there are few studies on learning inequalities in a lower-income, multi-country context. Analyzing a rich database consisting of 34 longitudinal household and phone survey rounds from Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda with a rigorous linear mixed model framework, we find lower school enrolment rates during the pandemic. But countries exhibit heterogeneity. Our variance decomposition analysis suggests that policies targeting individual household members are most effective for improving learning activities, followed by those targeting households, communities, and regions. Households with higher education levels or living standards or those in urban residences are more likely to engage their children in learning activities and more diverse types of learning activities. Furthermore, we find some evidence for a strong and positive relationship between public transfers and household head employment with learning activities for almost all the countries.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© 2024 The Authors
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology
JEL classification:	D - Microeconomics > D0 - General > D00 - General H - Public Economics > H0 - General > H00 - General I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education > I20 - General O - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development > O10 - General
Date Deposited:	07 Jan 2025 10:39
Last Modified:	13 Jan 2025 15:39
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/126596

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