Inequality in learning opportunities during Covid-19: Evidence from library takeout
Inequality in learning opportunities during Covid-19: Evidence from library takeout
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DOI：
10.1016/j.rssm.2020.100524
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发表时间：
2020-08-01
影响因子：
5
通讯作者：
Blaabaek, Ea Hoppe
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作者：
Jaeger, Mads Meier;Blaabaek, Ea Hoppe
研究表明，新冠肺炎加剧了家庭学习环境的不平等。我们使用来自丹麦的注册数据来分析家庭从公共图书馆购买数字儿童书籍的不平等。我们的登记数据包括超过5500万份对家庭日常图书馆外卖的观察，显示在新冠肺炎封锁前存在的图书馆外卖的社会经济梯度（按父母的教育和收入）在封锁后有所增加。我们还发现，在新冠肺炎疫情期间，移民家庭的社会经济梯度增长弱于本地家庭，在最近有从图书馆借阅数字资料经历的家庭中，社会经济梯度增长更强，而在有小学早期儿童的家庭中，社会经济梯度增长更强。总体而言，我们的研究结果表明，新冠肺炎增加了学习机会的不平等，因为在疫情期间，富裕家庭比贫困家庭更成功地使用图书馆。
Research shows that Covid-19 enhanced inequality in families' learning environments. We use register data from Denmark to analyze inequality in families' takeout of digital children's books from public libraries. Our register data, which include more than 55 million observations of families' daily library takeout, show that the socio-economic gradient in library takeout (by parents' education and income) that existed before the Covid-19 lockdown increased after the lockdown. We also find that the increase in the socioeconomic gradient during Covid-19 was weaker in immigrant than in native families, stronger in families with recent experience in taking out digital materials from the library, and stronger in families with children in the early stages of elementary school. Overall, our results suggest that Covid-19 increased inequality in learning opportunities because better off families were more successful at using libraries during the pandemic than worse off families.