讲座主题：

Online Learning and the Education Gap: A Digital Footprint Approach

主讲嘉宾：

邓永恒 威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校杰出讲座教授

讲座时间：

2024年2月28日（周三）14:00

讲座地点：

金融学院116教室

嘉宾简介：

邓永恒，威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校，威斯康星商学院 John P. Morgridge 杰出讲座教授。曾任新加坡国立大学教务长讲席教授，新国大房地产研究院院长，及美国房地产和城市经济学会主席(该学会成立50年以来第一任亚裔主席)。邓教授的主要研究领域涉及房地产金融资本市场和城市经济政策，成果发表在Econometrica, Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science等国际顶级经济、金融学期刊，并被人民日报，参考消息，华尔街日报，纽约时报，经济学人，福布斯等国内外主流媒体转载。

摘要：

Using school closures across 21 cities in a Southern China province during the Covid-19 pandemic as a natural experiment, we study how online learning affects the education gap. We propose a digital footprint approach based on smartphone usage to identify families with children who graduate from primary school and family economic status based on the housing prices of their residential locations and shopping behavior. We find the advantage of children from better-to-do families increases with the duration of school closure. Furthermore, we report that different app usage habits during school closures are likely to contribute to the widening educational gap.