J. Bracco, Matías Ciaschi, Leonardo Gasparini, M. Marchionni, Guido Neidhöfer
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Abstract
The shock of the COVID‐19 pandemic affected the human capital formation of children and youths. As a consequence of this disruption, the pandemic is likely to imply permanent lower levels of human capital. This paper provides new evidence on the impact of COVID‐19 and school closures on education in Latin America by exploiting harmonized microdata from a large set of national household surveys carried out in 2020, during the pandemic. In addition, the paper uses microsimulations to assess the potential effect of changes in human capital due to the COVID‐19 crisis on future income distributions. The findings show that the pandemic is likely to have significant long‐run consequences in terms of incomes and poverty if strong compensatory measures are not taken soon.
期刊介绍:
The major objective of the Review of Income and Wealth is to advance knowledge on the definition, measurement and interpretation of national income, wealth and distribution. Among the issues covered are: - national and social accounting - microdata analyses of issues related to income and wealth and its distribution - the integration of micro and macro systems of economic, financial, and social statistics - international and intertemporal comparisons of income, wealth, inequality, poverty, well-being, and productivity - related problems of measurement and methodology