Education and Human Capital

School closures, learning loss, absenteeism, lifetime earnings, and long-term child damage.

Rank	Long-term	Item	Side	Mechanism
1	98	Prolonged school closures / learning-loss cohort damage Prolonged closures after evidence shifted toward reopening likely created one of the most durable human-capital harms of the 2020+ period.	DemocraticDemocratic/progressive institutions, bipartisan early	education public-health civil-liberties

LT98Now90

Prolonged school closures / learning-loss cohort damage

Prolonged closures after evidence shifted toward reopening likely created one of the most durable human-capital harms of the 2020+ period.

DemocraticDemocratic/progressive institutions, bipartisan earlyHigh confidence