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Education on Lockdown Again: How Did Schoolchildren Spend Their Time during the Early 2021 School Closures?

Ludger Wößmann, Vera Freundl, Elisabeth Grewenig, Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner, Larissa Zierow
ifo Institut, München, 2021

ifo Schnelldienst, 2021, 74, Nr. 05, 36-52

During the several weeks of coronavirus-related school closures in early 2021, schoolchildren spent an average of 4.3 hours per day on school-related activities. That is according to a survey of more than 2,000 parents. While this is nearly three-quarters of an hour more than during the first school closures in spring 2020, it is still three hours less than on a typical school day before Covid-19.

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ifo Institut, München, 2021