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Title: Research Note: School Reopenings During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Implications for Gender and Racial Equity
Citation Type: Journal Article
Publication Year: 2022
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DOI: 10.1215/00703370-9613354
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PMID: 34779482
Abstract: In the fall of 2020, school districts across the country reopened under a variety of instructional modes. Some districts returned to in-person instruction and some operated remotely. Others reopened under hybrid models, wherein students alternated times, days, or weeks of in-person instruction. To capture this variation, we developed the Elementary School Operating Status (ESOS) database. ESOS provides data on elementary school districts’ primary operating status in the first grading period of the 2020–2021 school year, covering 24 million students in more than 9,000 school districts in all states. In this research note, we introduce these data and offer two analyt ical examples. We show that school districts with greater representation of Black and Hispanic students were less likely to offer in-person instruction than were districts with greater representation of White students. These racial disparities remained after accounting for geographic locale and COVID-19 prevalence. We also show that the number of in-person elementary school instruction days was associated with mothers’ labor force participation relative to fathers and to women without children—that is, the fewer days of instruction, the less likely that mothers were employed. ESOS is a critical data source for evaluating the mid-and long-term implications for students who experienced reduced in-person learning and for mothers who exited employment in the absence of in-person instruction and care.
Url: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34779482/
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Authors: Landivar, Liana Christin; Ruppanner, Leah; Rouse, Lloyd; Scarborough, William J.; Collins, Caitlyn
Periodical (Full): Demography
Issue: 1
Volume: 59
Pages: 1-12
Data Collections: IPUMS CPS
Topics: Education, Gender, Health, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Race and Ethnicity
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