College-educated mothers spend substantially more time in intensive childcare than less educated mothers despite their … childcare more. We find that among all mothers, spending time in childcare is associated with higher positive feelings compared … negative feelings during intensive childcare than other mothers. Moreover, college-educated mothers report substantially fewer …

-based or partner-provided childcare mitigated the severe disruptions to research observed among parents during COVID-19. We …The COVID-19 pandemic created unexpected and prolonged disruptions to childcare access. Using survey evidence on time … relative to fathers, narrowing the emerging post-pandemic gender gap. Having a stay-at-home partner reduced the disruptions to …

Time Use Survey and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, we document that heightened uncertainty increases housework and reduces … show that substitution between market and housework provides self-insurance to households, weakening precautionary savings … to higher inflation, particularly when uncertainty couples with policies redirecting time use towards housework (e …

-17 years old) and whether childcare closures affect parents of young children (age <5 years old) relative to others. Our …A substantial fraction of schools and childcare facilities in the United States closed their in-person operations …, we examine the impact of school and childcare closures on parental labor market outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic. In …

men and women report substantial increases in childcare and housework burdens, but women experienced significantly larger … effects of COVID-19 disruptions on the gender gap in academia. We administer a global survey to a broad range of academics …

-age children, and coincides with increased time spent engaging in childcare. Decomposing the gender gap in summer work …--and corresponding lapses in implicit childcare--provide a unifying explanation for these patterns. The summer drop in female employment … interruptions across job types defined by sector and occupation, we find large contributions from both gender differences in job …

We study differences in the time parents spend with girls and boys at preschool ages in Canada, the U.K. and the U … reading and the use of number and letters. We find the parents commit more of this time to girls, starting at ages as young as …

Parents invest both their material resources and their time into raising their children. Time investment in children is … patterns in time spent with children by parents within the United States. Second, we interpret our results in a Beckerian … framework of time allocation with a view toward establishing whether parental childcare appears to be more akin to leisure or …