COVID-19 effect on education: what is the economic impact?

School  closures since the start of the pandemic have brought tremendous  social ramifications for children, however, they have also led to  dramatic consequences in terms of loss of revenue and diverging economic  wellness for present and future generations. Edit Inotai, Senior  Fellow, CEID (Hungary) and Larissa Zierow, Deputy Director, ifo Center  for the Economics of Education (Germany) discuss COVID-related learning  losses and economic effects at the New Europe 100 Forum 2.0 that took  place in December 2020. Summary of the conversation, “COVID-19’s Long-Term Impact on Education”: https://visegradinsight.eu/covid-19-long-term-impact-on-education/ The New Europe 100 network is a project by Res Publica Foundation that brings together people who have a global impact through their groundbreaking expertise, unique skills and social outreach. In partnership with Visegrad Insight, StartUp Hub (Poland), SAPIE (Slovakia), Skool (Hungary) and Dataweps (Czechia). Supported by the International Visegrad Fund.