suggest that the pandemic not only affected the short-term allocation of housework and childcare, but also reversed recent …

period from June to August 2020, we investigate the opposing claims of widening/closing the gender gap in parental childcare … couples’ childcare division and by considering the prepandemic division rather than providing merely snapshots during lockdown … months. Starting from a fairly "traditional" prepandemic childcare division, the lockdown stimulus was not nearly strong …

lapses in implicit childcare−provide a unifying explanation for these patterns. The summer drop in female employment aligns …, and coincides with increased time spent engaging in childcare. Decomposing the gender gap in summer work interruptions … and gender differences within jobs in the propensity to exit employment over the summer. Summer childcare constraints may …

We study the effect of institutional childcare on child penalties. Using Swiss administrative data, we exploit the … staggered opening of childcare facilities across municipalities in the canton of Bern. We find that the presence of childcare … facilities in the year of birth of the first child reduces the child penalty. The availability of childcare increases maternal …

effect of COVID-19 on the working arrangements, housework and childcare of couples where both partners work. ties. According … more time on housework than before. The link between time devoted to childcare and working arrangements is more symmetric …

the increased demands of housework, childcare and home-schooling. Much of the additional burden has been shouldered by … pronounced during the second wave, it was still higher than pre-COVID-19. The time spent by women on housework, childcare, and …