Covid-19: Special Survey on Parent-Child Preferences and Secondary School Choice

The current Covid-19 pandemic is likely to differentially impact human capital formation in low-income countries. Job loss resulting from social distancing policies, combined with limited access to credit and saving mechanisms, may impede schooling access for children from the poorest households, even after schools themselves reopen. The goal of this survey module is two-fold. First, it will provide high-frequency descriptive data on schooling attitudes, schooling investment, home environment, and at-home learning for an existing representative sample of 8th Graders in Busia sub-counties, during the pandemic. Second, it will examine the extent to which a randomly assigned schooling intervention, aimed at helping 8th Graders transition to secondary school, can mitigate the educational impacts of the crisis.