Ben Chapman
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first heard Jan 2023
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In terms of their incomes, the economists found that the children impacted by the pandemic will earn 5.6% less over the course of their lives than they would have were they not impacted by the pandemic.
And the mechanics behind how this calculation was conducted relied on studies over periods of years that were conducted nationally and internationally that showed linkages between academic proficiency and income levels.
We've never seen learning loss on this scale before, but we do often see losses in learning after natural disasters and interruptions to operations of school systems around the world.
In particular, there was a period in Argentina between 1988 and 2014 where regional teacher strikes were so commonplace that primary students in parts of the country missed an average of 88 days of school over the course of their education.
And based on what happened there,
the economists in Stanford and other folks who are studying this are able to come to some conclusions about what might be happening in the United States.
The big picture number is $70,000, which is the amount on average that learning loss could reduce the lifetime earnings of children by if it's not addressed.
And within that universe,
It's important to note that lower achieving students were disproportionately impacted by the academic drops in the pandemic.
So it's going to be a harder hit on lower performing students who probably would have been earning less in the first place.
There is also a geographic effect happening.
All the states did not score equally on the exams.
In particular, there were students in Oklahoma, Delaware, and West Virginia who saw the largest declines on math exams and therefore may see the biggest economic hits from math.
the disruptions experienced during the pandemic in schooling.
Well, the study found that learning loss leads to lower graduation rates and college enrollment, as well as higher rates of teen motherhood and higher rates of arrests and incarceration.
Generally, students who score lower tend to attain less education.
and accrue fewer skills than those who score higher.
And as adults, students who have taken this academic hit will probably see higher rates of unemployment and the impact will probably be greater on students from poorer families and from students who are younger during the pandemic.
The downstream effect of the loss in learning that occurred during the pandemic is that poorer communities may be struggling more in the future as they've seen greater losses in learning during the pandemic.
This may end up contributing to more pronounced inequalities in society generally as the years go on.
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