Anna Gassman-Pines and colleagues explore negative impacts due to disruptions in school and daycare during the pandemic

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.

See NBER Working Paper

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.