First published in Duke CCFP News Winter 2022 electronic newsletter and featured in Marketwatch.com 18JAN2022
Effects of School Closures on Children: The pandemic profoundly affected American children with disruptions to their schooling and daily care. A new study by Anna Gassman-Pines, Elizabeth Ananat, John Fitz-Henley II, and Jane Leer found that service sector workers who had a young child reported disruption on 24 percent of days in fall 2020. The disruptions were more common in remote learning and had a negative impact on children’s behavior and on parenting mood and behavior.
This research received support from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health (#1R21HD100893-01), the National Science Foundation (# SES-1921190), the Russell Sage Foundation (#1811-10382), and the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.