公共卫生事件对流动儿童和本地儿童非认知能力的影响

Differential Impacts of Public Health Emergencies on the Noncognitive Abilities of Local and Migrant Children

本文以新冠疫情为例分析重大公共卫生事件对本地儿童和流动儿童非认知能力的影响差异。基于2017—2018年和2020年上海小学调查数据,回归结果表明,相比本地儿童,疫情冲击导致流动儿童的情绪稳定性显著下降0.222个标准差。家庭环境是造成流动儿童情绪稳定性下降更多的主要影响机制。在经济条件方面,流动儿童父母更多从事不稳定的工作,更易经历收入下降,心理压力增加;在学习支持方面,流动儿童家长较难提供安静的居家学习环境和有效的学习支持。

Utilizing survey data from nine Shanghai public schools in 2017,2018,and 2020,we ex-plore the differential impact of COVID-19 pandemic,the major public health emergency,on the noncognitive abilities of local and migrant children.We find a significant adverse effect of the pandemic on the emotional stability of migrant children,leading to a decrease of o.222 standard deviations compared to their local peers.Mechanism analysis reveals that home-based online learning environments,family economic condition change and parental educational support are the primary factors leading to the expanded emotional stability gap between the migrant children and their local peers.