The opportunity to learn during the COVID-19 pandemic: Social inequalities and the digital divide in Brazil.

With the closure of schools during the COVID-19 pandemic, the education available to students depended heavily on home and family conditions and structure. This paper analyses the relationship between access to technology, demographic characteristics, and learning opportunities during the pandemic in Brazil in 2020. It uses logistic and ordinary least squares linear regression models to generate information based on two national household surveys in Brazil. Both demographics and technology access are related to learning during the pandemic, but demographics have a more constant relationship with learning opportunities than technology access throughout the studied period. • Inequalities in access to education during the pandemic in Latin America. • Use of PNAD-COVID19 to study educational access during the pandemic in Brazil. • ICT access is related to differences in educational access during the pandemic. • Gender and race inequalities not addressed by educational policies in the pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]