RT Journal Article
T1 The rise in teenagers skipping school across English speaking countries. Evidence from PISA.
A1 Anders, Jake
A1 Jerrim, John
A1 Ladrón de Guevara Rodríguez, Maria
A1 Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David
K1 COVID-19 - Influencia y consecuencias
K1 Educación - Modelos matemáticos
K1 Absentismo escolar
AB Many countries are grappling with the long shadow that COVID has cast over their education systems, including dramatic increases in absence from school. This paper presents new insights into this issue by investigating how the proportion of teenagers skipping school has changed following the COVID-19 pandemic across the developed world. We find that this problem is mainly confined to industrialised English-speaking nations, especially affecting teenage girls. In contrast, the proportion of 15-year-olds skipping school remains similar to pre-pandemic levels in most other members of the OECD. Counter to much of the previous literature on COVID-induced learning loss, we find no evidence of a link between student truancy and length of school closures. Our results do highlight, however, that English-speaking nations risk falling behind their international competitors unless radical action is taken to reduce the growing number of teenagers regularly skipping school.
PB Springer
YR 2025
FD 2025-11-01
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/40684
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/40684
LA eng
NO Anders, J., Jerrim, J., Ladrón de Guevara Rodríguez, M. y Marcenaro-Gutierrez, O. D. (2025). “The rise in teenagers skipping school across English speaking countries. Evidence from PISA”. Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability
NO Fundación BBVA (Programa PRISMAS y PROBLEMAS) 2023
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 20 ene 2026