Fig 1.
The five stages of China’s fight against the pandemic.
Notes: This chart shows the four stages of China’s against the pandemic since December 2019. Timelines for the first two stages of the pandemic are from the white paper: Fighting Covid-19: China in Action. http://www.scio.gov.cn/zfbps/32832/Document/1681801/1681801.htm.
Table 1.
Mean weekly nationwide search intensity for learning resources.
Fig 2.
Weekly nationwide search intensity for learning resources.
Notes: The figure above shows raw weekly nationwide search intensity relative to intensity on January 20, 2020. The week of January 20, 2020 is the beginning of Wuhan lockdown, and the week of May 18, 2020 is the beginning of school reopening. Panel A shows search intensity for “overall learning resources”. Panel B for “school-centered resources”, panel C for “parent-centered resources”, panel D for “online tutoring agencies resources”, panel E for “in-person tutoring agencies resources”.
Fig 3.
Event study of search intensity gap by socioeconomic status.
Notes: This figure shows event study coefficients and corresponding confidence intervals estimating the difference in the weekly value of search intensity between high and low SES areas. The regressions include fixed effects for week of year (1–52) and school year (2011–2021), excluding the week of the Spring Festival. T = 17 represents the week when school reopening began. Panel A shows the search intensity for “overall learning resources”, panel B for “school-centered resources”, panel C for “parent-centered resources”, panel D for “online tutoring agencies resources”, panel E for “in-person tutoring agencies resources”.
Table 2.
Effects of the pandemic on search intensity by socioeconomic status.
Table 3.
Effects of the pandemic on search intensity, excluding Hubei Province.
Table 4.
Effects of the pandemic on search intensity, excluding four municipalities.
Table 5.
Effects of the pandemic on search intensity, limiting the sample to the regions where schools closed on February 10.
Table 6.
Effects of the pandemic on search intensity, excluding regions with late reopening.
Table 7.
Effects of the pandemic on search intensity by fixed broadband Internet access per capita.
Table 8.
Effects of the pandemic on search intensity by alternative measures of resources.