We estimate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-reported school enrollment using a sample of 16-to-18-year-old youth from the January 2010 to the December 2020 Current Population Survey (CPS). The pandemic reduced the likelihood of students reporting that they were enrolled in high school by about 1.8 percentage points in April 2020 vs. in the same month in prior years, although enrollment rebounded back to typical levels by October 2020. Adverse effects on school enrollment were magnified for older vs. younger students, males vs. females, and among adolescents without a college-educated household member vs. adolescents from more educated households. Greater school responsiveness to the pandemic and high school graduation exit exams appear to have protected students from disengaging from school.

我们使用 2010 年 1 月至 2020 年 12 月当前人口调查 (CPS) 的 16 至 18 岁青年样本估计 COVID-19 大流行对自我报告的入学率的影响。尽管到 2020 年 10 月入学率回升至典型水平，但与往年同月相比，大流行使学生在 2020 年 4 月报告他们就读高中的可能性降低了约 1.8 个百分点。对入学的不利影响是年龄较大的学生与年轻的学生、男性与女性以及家庭成员没有受过大学教育的青少年与来自受过高等教育家庭的青少年相比，这一比例被放大了。学校对大流行病的更大反应和高中毕业毕业考试似乎保护了学生免于辍学。