COVID AND STUDENTS
Hillsdale Daily News
HILLSDALE - As the COVID-19 pandemic upended life for everyone, students have faced a variety of burdens, ranging from cancelled events to mental health and financial issues.
In order to understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on education, various surveys have been conducted by sites like Science Digest to recover the causal impact of the pandemic on students current and expected outcomes.
One study found that due to COVID-19: 13 percent of students have delayed graduation, 40 percent have lost a job, internship, or job offer, and 29 percent 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 per week 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 percent more likely than their highe