The core of the project is a large panel survey, the ‘Corona und Du’ (CoDu) study. This investigates the educational attainment of socially disadvantaged children and young people and ways of coping with the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic. In addition to regular surveys of children of different age groups and their parents, two randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are being used to investigate a) how the provision of free e-book readers for children affects their reading behaviour and reading performance and b) whether online tutoring for young people from SGB II families is a suitable instrument to compensate for possible inequalities in the Covid-19-related educational gaps.