Disruptions to early childhood preschool services during a pandemic: Evidence from India
基于对印度5000多名早期儿童服务提供者的调查，利用封锁严格程度的时空差异，量化了疫情期间学前教育服务的中断程度，并发现工作者心理特质可缓解服务下降。
Abstract Much less is known about the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the provision of early childhood preschool services relative to research on school closures. We conducted surveys of more than 5000 early childhood service providers and leverage temporal and spatial variation in India’s intensity of lockdowns to quantify disruptions to preschool services under the world’s largest early childhood development program between areas with different strictness of lockdown measures. We document a 23 percentage point reduction in the provision of preschool services in red zone lockdown areas (strictest measures) relative to green zone lockdown areas (least strict measures). We find that pre-COVID measures of high worker locus of control and public service motivation offset the reduction in differential preschool service provision by 27–37%.