TY  - JOUR
AB  - We use high frequency internet search data to study in real time how US households sought out online learning resources as schools closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. By April 2020, nationwide search intensity for both school- and parent-centered online learning resources had roughly doubled relative to baseline. Areas of the country with higher income, better internet access and fewer rural schools saw substantially larger increases in search intensity. The pandemic will likely widen achievement gaps along these dimensions given schools' and parents' differing engagement with online resources to compensate for lost school-based learning time. Accounting for such differences and promoting more equitable access to online learning could improve the effectiveness of education policy responses to the pandemic. The public availability of internet search data allows our analyses to be updated when schools reopen and to be replicated in other countries.
AU  - Bacher-Hicks, Andrew
AU  - Goodman, Joshua
AU  - Mulhern, Christine
DA  - July 2020
DO  - 10.26300/zysv-4p53
PY  - 2020
ST  - Inequality in Household Adaptation to Schooling Shocks: Covid-Induced Online Learning Engagement in Real Time
T2  - EdWorkingPapers.com
TI  - Inequality in Household Adaptation to Schooling Shocks: Covid-Induced Online Learning Engagement in Real Time
UR  - https://www.edworkingpapers.com/ai20-256
ID  - 231
ER  -