Natural disasters and university enrolment: evidence from L’Aquila earthquake

Cerqua, Augusto; Pietro, Giorgio Di

doi:10.1080/00036846.2016.1218431

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“…Despite that, students appreciate efforts made by the institution and by faculty to maintain academic continuity (Monti, Tull, and Hoskin 2011;Day 2015;Collings, Gerrard, and Garrill 2019). There was no evidence of an impact on student enrollments following an earthquake in Italy (Cerqua and Di Pietro 2017). Mental health issues are of concern, however.…”

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The Immediate Impact of COVID-19 on Postsecondary Teaching and Learning

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Chung

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The Professional Geographer

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and colleges worldwide have quickly moved campus-based classes to virtual spaces due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This article explores the impact of this sudden transition of learning and teaching based on experiences and evidence from six institutions across three countries. Our findings suggest that although online and remote learning was a satisfactory experience for some students, various inequities were involved. Many students lacked appropriate devices for practical work and encountered difficulties in securing suitable housing and workspace. Students were stressed, and faculty were, too, especially those in precarious employment. The lack of fieldwork and access to laboratories created special challenges. We are concerned that the lack of hands-on experience could cause a decline in enrollments and the number of majors in geography over the next few years. This issue must be addressed by making introductory courses as engaging as possible. It is too early to determine the extent to which online and remote learning can replace campus-based, face-toface geography education once the pandemic ends, but the new academic year of 2020-2021 will be revealing. Nevertheless, the COVID-19 crisis has revealed preexisting problems and inequalities that will need our collective effort to address, regardless of the pandemic's trajectory.

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The Immediate Impact of COVID-19 on Postsecondary Teaching and Learning

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Chang

Chung

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The Professional Geographer

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“…Insert Table 5 here Table 6 considers the robustness of our results to 2 alternative control groups. We rely on the work of Cerqua and Di Pietro (2017) in the selection of these control groups. They use the synthetic control method to study how the L'Aquila earthquake affected subsequent enrolment at the local university.…”

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The Academic Impact of Natural Disasters: Evidence from L'Aquila Earthquake

Pietro

2015

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This paper uses a standard difference-in-differences approach to examine the effect of the L'Aquila earthquake on the academic performance of the students of the local university. The empirical results indicate that this natural disaster reduced students' probability of graduating on-time and slightly increased students' probability of dropping out. While post-disaster measures (e.g. fast re-establishment of education activities in temporary locations) are likely to have mitigated the effects of this event, disruptions in the learning environment and the mental trauma suffered by students in the aftermath of the earthquake may have worsened their academic performance.

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“…(3), we control for a measure of the municipal human capital, as university enrollment is correlated with civic capital and, at the same time, with earthquakes (Cerqua and Di Pietro, 2017). We measure human capital as the share of people with a university degree.…”

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Earthquake Hazard and Civic Capital

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We examine the empirical relationship between the exposure to earthquake hazard and civic capital in Italian municipalities. Drawing on the Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, we find that earthquake hazard increases civic capital. We decompose the effect of earthquake hazard variation along four dimensionsfrequency, space, magnitude, and timingand observe that the effect is mostly explained by high-magnitude seismic events in the past. Our results are in line with the intuition that cooperative social norms build over a very long time span.

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Natural disasters and university enrolment: evidence from L’Aquila earthquake

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The Immediate Impact of COVID-19 on Postsecondary Teaching and Learning

The Immediate Impact of COVID-19 on Postsecondary Teaching and Learning

The Academic Impact of Natural Disasters: Evidence from L'Aquila Earthquake

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