Socio-demographic profiles and academic outcomes for participants of the ‘school strikers for climate’ in Belgium

During the spring of 2019, approximately 1.6 million people in over 1700 cities worldwide participated in strike action to raise public awareness of government inaction on climate change. The large proportion of youth and young people mobilized through these climate strikes was unprecedented. However, we know very little so far about who these young people are, how they participated, and what it will mean for them academically over the short and long term. To address these knowledge gaps, we accessed a unique administrative longitudinal dataset consisting of 65,085 youth, enrolled in 723 compu... Mehr ...