Counter-COVID public policies and the impacts on Australian children

该项目旨在确定应对新冠肺炎学校关闭、居家强制措施和政府支助付款对澳大利亚儿童教育和发展成果的因果影响。它将首次建立一个全面的因果证据基础，说明这些政策对从学前班到中学毕业的各个学年的儿童的平均和分布影响。该项目旨在促进我们对儿童技能积累的理解，以及学校、家长、同龄人和政府干预的相对重要性。预期的好处包括提供政策建议，以恢复学生的学习成果，减少澳大利亚的教育不平等。

This project aims to identify the causal effects of counter-COVID school closures, stay-at-home mandates and government support payments on the educational and developmental outcomes of Australian children. It will establish, for the first time, a comprehensive causal evidence base on the average and distributional impacts of these policies on children across the spectrum of schooling years from preschool to secondary school completion. This project expects to advance our understanding of child skill accumulation and the relative importance of schools, parents, peers and government intervention. Anticipated benefits include providing policy recommendations to restore student learning outcomes and reduce educational inequality in Australia.