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Replication Data for: No causal effect of school closures in Japan on the spread of COVID-19 in spring 2020 |
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doi:10.7910/DVN/N803UQ |
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Harvard Dataverse |
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2021-10-07 |
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Fukumoto, Kentaro; Charles T. McClean; Kuninori Nakagawa, 2021, "Replication Data for: No causal effect of school closures in Japan on the spread of COVID-19 in spring 2020", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/N803UQ, Harvard Dataverse, V3, UNF:6:T6Kfc0q6S0kh4jZkz1MPcA== [fileUNF] |
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Replication Data for: No causal effect of school closures in Japan on the spread of COVID-19 in spring 2020 |
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Identification Number: |
doi:10.7910/DVN/N803UQ |
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Authoring Entity: |
Fukumoto, Kentaro (Gakushuin University) |
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Charles T. McClean (University of Michigan) |
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Kuninori Nakagawa (Shizuoka University) |
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Harvard Dataverse |
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Fukumoto, Kentaro |
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Depositor: |
Fukumoto, Kentaro |
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2021-09-19 |
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https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/N803UQ |
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Medicine, Health and Life Sciences, Social Sciences, matching, SARS-CoV-2 |
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Among tool kits to combat the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, school closures are one of the most frequent non-pharmaceutical interventions. However, school closures bring about substantial costs, such as learning loss. To date, studies have not reached a consensus about the effectiveness of these policies at mitigating community transmission, partly because they lack rigorous causal inference. Here we assess the causal effect of school closures in Japan on reducing the spread of COVID-19 in spring 2020. By matching each municipality with open schools to a municipality with closed schools that is the most similar in terms of potential confounders, we can estimate how many cases the municipality with open schools would have had if it had closed its schools. We do not find any evidence that school closures in Japan reduced the spread of COVID-19. Our null results suggest that policies on school closures should be reexamined given the potential negative consequences for children and parents. |
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<a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0">CC0 1.0</a> |
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Fukumoto, Kentaro, Charles T. McClean, and Kuninori Nakagawa. 2021. "No causal effect of school closures in Japan on the spread of COVID-19 in spring 2020." Nature Medicine. |
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10.1038/s41591-021-01571-8 |
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Bibliographic Citation: |
Fukumoto, Kentaro, Charles T. McClean, and Kuninori Nakagawa. 2021. "No causal effect of school closures in Japan on the spread of COVID-19 in spring 2020." Nature Medicine. |
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