Also the Argentinian study is not the only example of school closures leading to long-term loss of educational attainment, as I reported here:https://www.npr.org/2020/04/02/824964864/nine-out-of-10-of-the-world-s-children-are-out-of-school-what-now …
The final numbers in the paper are largely based on the assumption that every year of schooling reduces your risk of death at all ages by 25%, which they calculated by extracting the wrong numbers from some studies on schooling and mortality
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Correcting just this issue - indeed correcting just one transcription error - completely reverses the results of the paper, showing that school closures cost far LESS YLL than COVID-19 (ignoring the other mistakes)
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And when I say error, it's really very simple - the study in question said that each year of schooling reduced your risk of death by "about 10%" but the authors said that this paper showed a reduction of 35%


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