75th Economic Policy Panel

The spring 2022 Economic Policy hybrid Panel Meeting was held in Paris, hosted by the Direction générale du Trésor on 7 and 8 April, with the papers presented focusing on a variety of topics, including the special issue on ‘Stereotypes, Attitudes and Discrimination’.

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COVID, SCHOOL CLOSURES AND CHILDREN’S FUTURES

Long-term distributional effects of lost learning in Germany and the US

As the Covid-19 pandemic swept across the world in the spring of 2020, schools were shut down and millions of children faced major learning losses while their parents struggled to combine work, childcare and home education. At the invited policy session of the spring 2022 Economic Policy Panel meeting, Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln of Goethe University Frankfurt and CEPR presented a new study of the likely long-term impact of those closures on children’s future livelihoods and wellbeing.

Her presentation was followed by a discussion with Monica Costa-Dias and Andreas Schleicher, moderated by Andrew Jack, Global Education Editor for the Financial Times.

Covid, School Closures and Children’s Futures

The studies on the agenda at the April 2022 Economic Policy Panel Meeting focused on:

Beijing’s Secretive International Lending Programme

Effects of Banning the Veil in French Schools

Foreign School Students Get Lower Grades than Natives

Gender Discrimination in Politics

Pay Transparency

Structural Reforms Boost Italian Growth and Jobs