The effect of the COVID‑19 disruption on the gender gap in students’ performance: a cross‑country analysis

This paper investigates how the COVID-19 school closure has affected the gender gap in grade-8 students' performance and what are the drivers behind this. By analysing four different countries (i.e., the Russian Federation, Slovenia, Uzbekistan and the United Arab Emirates), the paper represent...

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Authors: Bertoletti, Alice, Biagi, Federico, Di Pietro, Giorgio, Karpiński, Zbigniew
Format: article
Publication Date:2023
Country:España
Institution:Universidad Loyola Andalucía
Repository:Brújula
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12412/6916
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Gender gap
COVID-19
KHB decomposition
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spelling The effect of the COVID‑19 disruption on the gender gap in students’ performance: a cross‑country analysisBertoletti, AliceBiagi, FedericoDi Pietro, GiorgioKarpiński, ZbigniewGender gapCOVID-19KHB decompositionThis paper investigates how the COVID-19 school closure has affected the gender gap in grade-8 students' performance and what are the drivers behind this. By analysing four different countries (i.e., the Russian Federation, Slovenia, Uzbekistan and the United Arab Emirates), the paper represents the first study addressing the issue from a comparative perspective.The study uses data from the Responses to Educational Disruption Survey (REDS) survey, which comprises international comparable data on how students approached remote learning during the COVID-19 disruption. The extent of the gender gap is estimated by employing an ordered logit model, while the Karlson-Holm-Breen (KHB) decomposition method is used to analyse the different potential channels that could account for the gender gap during COVID-19. The empirical results reveal that, during the COVID-19 school closure, girls tended to perceive changes in their learnings less favourably than boys, both in terms of improvement in self-perceived learning and self-reported improvement in grades— with odds of a more affirmative response between 20 and 25% lower for girls relative to boys. The main drivers explaining this gender gap are physical activity and psychological distress of students during the COVID-19 disruption, as well as the perceived family climate.2023info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12412/6916reponame:Brújulainstname:Universidad Loyola AndalucíaInglésinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositorio.uloyola.es:20.500.12412/69162026-06-24T12:48:37Z
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title The effect of the COVID‑19 disruption on the gender gap in students’ performance: a cross‑country analysis
spellingShingle The effect of the COVID‑19 disruption on the gender gap in students’ performance: a cross‑country analysis
Bertoletti, Alice
Gender gap
COVID-19
KHB decomposition
title_short The effect of the COVID‑19 disruption on the gender gap in students’ performance: a cross‑country analysis
title_full The effect of the COVID‑19 disruption on the gender gap in students’ performance: a cross‑country analysis
title_fullStr The effect of the COVID‑19 disruption on the gender gap in students’ performance: a cross‑country analysis
title_full_unstemmed The effect of the COVID‑19 disruption on the gender gap in students’ performance: a cross‑country analysis
title_sort The effect of the COVID‑19 disruption on the gender gap in students’ performance: a cross‑country analysis
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Bertoletti, Alice
Biagi, Federico
Di Pietro, Giorgio
Karpiński, Zbigniew
author Bertoletti, Alice
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Biagi, Federico
Di Pietro, Giorgio
Karpiński, Zbigniew
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Di Pietro, Giorgio
Karpiński, Zbigniew
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Gender gap
COVID-19
KHB decomposition
topic Gender gap
COVID-19
KHB decomposition
description This paper investigates how the COVID-19 school closure has affected the gender gap in grade-8 students' performance and what are the drivers behind this. By analysing four different countries (i.e., the Russian Federation, Slovenia, Uzbekistan and the United Arab Emirates), the paper represents the first study addressing the issue from a comparative perspective.The study uses data from the Responses to Educational Disruption Survey (REDS) survey, which comprises international comparable data on how students approached remote learning during the COVID-19 disruption. The extent of the gender gap is estimated by employing an ordered logit model, while the Karlson-Holm-Breen (KHB) decomposition method is used to analyse the different potential channels that could account for the gender gap during COVID-19. The empirical results reveal that, during the COVID-19 school closure, girls tended to perceive changes in their learnings less favourably than boys, both in terms of improvement in self-perceived learning and self-reported improvement in grades— with odds of a more affirmative response between 20 and 25% lower for girls relative to boys. The main drivers explaining this gender gap are physical activity and psychological distress of students during the COVID-19 disruption, as well as the perceived family climate.
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