The impact of COVID-19 on student experiences and expectations: Evidence from a survey

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Aucejo, Esteban M.; French, Jacob; Araya, Maria Paola Ugalde; Zafar, Basit
• 署名单位: Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; National Bureau of Economic Research; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2020.104271
• 发表日期: 2020
• 关键词: covid-19; Higher education; expectations; Survey

摘要

In order to understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on higher education, we surveyed approximately 1500 students at one of the largest public institutions in the United States using an instrument designed to recover the causal impact of the pandemic on students' current and expected outcomes. Results show large negative effects acrossmany dimensions. Due to COVID-19: 13% of students have delayed graduation, 40% have lost a job, internship, or job offer, and 29% expect to earn less at age 35. Moreover, these effects have been highly heterogeneous. One quarter of students increased their study time by more than 4 hours perweek due to COVID-19, while another quarter decreased their study time by more than 5 hours per week. This heterogeneity often followed existing socioeconomic divides. Lower-income students are 55% more likely than their higher-income peers to have delayed graduation due to COVID-19. Finally, we showthat the economic and health related shocks induced by COVID-19 vary systematically by socioeconomic factors and constitute key mediators in explaining the large (and heterogeneous) effects of the pandemic. (c) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.