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How much would school closures cost the economy?

School closures are one of the main ways in which government attempts to manage the spread of the coronavirus will dent economic activity. While parents can work around the closures to some extent, there is nonetheless likely to be a fairly sizeable hit to output via this channel in the affected countries.

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