This paper studies the effects of Covid-19 related daycare and school closures on gender role attitudes toward maternal … 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 …

's total hours worked fall by 11 percent, twice the decline among men. School closures for summer break−and corresponding … lapses in implicit childcare−provide a unifying explanation for these patterns. The summer drop in female employment aligns … with cross-state differences in the timing of school closures, is concentrated among mothers with young school-age children …

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 …

In this paper, we investigate whether the expansion of childcare leads to an increase in the female labour supply. We … that expanded childcare for 1–2- year-olds in Norway. Our results reveal a significant increase in the overall employment …

are predictive of labor supply intentions under different policy scenarios related to childcare availability and quality …