The closure of schools was accompanied by the efforts of national education systems to provide remote learning options and tools to hamper the learning 2 The debate on the efficacy of school closures as a measure to mitigate the spread of SARS-CoV- 2 in the first and subsequent waves is still ongoing, although most of the evidence highlights that children play an important role in the community tr. [...] The probabilities P(q=1) and P(d=1) are estimated based on the number of COVID-19 infections and deaths per inhabitant in the country multiplied by the household size.9 Parameters q and d are the respective days of schooling lost due to the occurrence of the two events. [...] While the mean loss for a student in the bottom decile of the income distribution is estimated in 81% of a schooling year, the loss becomes 22% for a student in the top decile. [...] Poverty would increase between 8.4% and 20.7% in the shocked cohort, depending on the indicator and on the effectiveness of the reactions of governments and families during the pandemic to compensate for the school closures. [...] We find that the COVID-19 pandemic may imply a substantial increase in income poverty in the future for the shocked cohort: 23 between 8.4% to 20.7%, depending on the indicator and on the effectiveness of the reactions of governments and families during the pandemic to compensate for the school closures.
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