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On April the 3rd, LEARN! hosted a seminar by prof. Herman van de Werfhorst titled 'Social and academic embeddedness as buffers against school closure effects on schooling outcomes'. Here is a short description of the talk:

Using a unique combination of student-level survey, sociometric and register data, this study examines whether the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on schooling outcomes is conditional on students’ academic and social embeddedness in the school setting. We estimate the impact of the pandemic on the track recommendation level and the enrolled secondary school track by comparing sixth-graders who went through the transition from primary to secondary school during the first wave of the pandemic with a previous cohort in register data of the Netherlands. The individual estimated pandemic effect is then associated witch student and parent information obtained through a survey in the two months preceding the pandemic. Results show that especially student self-efficacy, academic motivation, and to a lesser extent parental involvement are important buffers against pandemic effects. The centrality of parents in the parental network in schools is hardly associated to the extent to which the pandemic has affected schooling outcomes.