Evaluating the Effect of School Closures on Societal Transmission of Covid-19: Evidence from Lower Secondary School Closures in Sweden
| dc.contributor.author | Shaqiri, Sebastian | |
| dc.contributor.department | University of Gothenburg/Graduate School | eng |
| dc.contributor.department | Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School | swe |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-06-30T11:39:32Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-06-30T11:39:32Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022-06-30 | |
| dc.description | MSc in Economics | en |
| dc.description.abstract | In lightoftheCovid-19pandemic,oneofthemostcommoninterventions used bycountrieswastoshutdownschoolsinthehopeofmitigatingvirus transmission. However,theeffectivenessofschoolclosuresstilllacks consensus intheliteratureduetotheseeminglydifficulttaskofestimating the causaleffectofclosingschools.Thispapercontributestotheliterature byprovidingbothempiricalevidenceoftheeffectofschoolclosuresand methodologicalguidancetoisolatetheeffectofschoolclosures.Weexploit variationsinschoolclosuresacrossmunicipalitiesbyutilizinganovel dataset onSwedishlowersecondaryschoolclosurestoidentifythecausal effect usingasyntheticcontrolmethod.Wefindevidencethatclosing schoolshadasmallandsignificanteffectonthemunicipaltransmission of Covid-19.Inaddition,weshowthatonlyholdingallstudentsathome simultaneouslyyieldedmitigatingeffectsonthetransmission. | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2077/72466 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | 2022:128 | en |
| dc.setspec.uppsok | SocialBehaviourLaw | |
| dc.subject | Covid-19 | en |
| dc.subject | Sweden | en |
| dc.subject | school closures | en |
| dc.subject | synthetic control method | en |
| dc.title | Evaluating the Effect of School Closures on Societal Transmission of Covid-19: Evidence from Lower Secondary School Closures in Sweden | en |
| dc.type | Text | |
| dc.type.degree | Master 2-years | |
| dc.type.uppsok | H2 |