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State-level economic policy uncertainty
Baker, Scott; Davis, Steven J.; Levy, Jeffrey A. - 2022
We quantify and study state-level economic policy uncertainty. Tapping digital archives for nearly 3,500 local newspapers, we construct three monthly indexes for each state: one that captures state and local sources of policy uncertainty (ΕPU-S), one that captures national and international...
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Pandemic depression : COVID-19 and the mental health of the self-employed
Caliendo, Marco; Graeber, Daniel; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2022
longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: whereas self-employed women experienced a …
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Baby steps: the gender division of childcare during the COVID-19 pandemic
Sevilla, Almudena; Smith, Sarah - 2020
share, but overall, the gender childcare gap (the difference between the share of childcare done by women and the share done …
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The COVID-19 pandemic and gendered division of paid and unpaid work: evidence from India
Deshpande, Ashwini - 2020
the gender gaps in paid and unpaid work through the lockdown and recovery phases. The first month of the national lockdown …
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The gender dimension of occupational exposure to contagion in Europe
Lewandowski, Piotr; Lipowska, Katarzyna; Magda, Iga - 2020
We study the gender dimension of occupational exposure to contagious diseases spread by the respiratory or close … also more likely than men to be unable to work from home, which contributes to their increased exposure. Gender is a more … important factor in workers' exposure to contagion than their education or age. This gender difference in exposure can be …
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Who Is doing the chores and childcare in dual-earner couples during the COVID-19 era of working from home?
Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff; Vernon, Victoria - 2022
In 2020, parents' work-from-home days increased fourfold following the initial COVID-19 pandemic lockdown period compared to 2015-2019. At the same time, many daycares closed, and the majority of public schools offered virtual or hybrid classrooms, increasing the demand for household-provided...
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Gendered impacts of COVID-19 in developing countries
Alon, Titan; Doepke, Matthias; Manysheva, Kristina; … - 2022
In many high-income economies, the recession caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented declines in women's employment. We examine how the forces that underlie this observation play out in developing countries, with a specific focus on Nigeria, the most populous country in...
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The gender gap in income and the COVID-19 pandemic
Doorley, Karina; O'Donoghue, Cathal; Sologon, Denisa M. - 2021
The gender income gap is large and well documented for many countries. Recent research shows that it is mainly driven … the gender income gap by redistributing between men and women. The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented levels … research investigates the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on the gender gap in income in Ireland. Using nowcasting techniques …
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Have girls been left behind during the COVID-19 pandemic? : gender differences in pandemic effects on children's mental wellbeing
Mendolia, Silvia; Suziedelyte, Agne; Zhu, Anna - 2021
mental wellbeing. These gender differences are more pronounced in lower-income families. Our results are consistent with …
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From mancession to shecession: women's employment in regular and pandemic recessions
Alon, Titan; Coskun, Sena; Doepke, Matthias; Koll, David; … - 2021
's impact on the labor market. Another notable finding is the central role of telecommuting: gender gaps in the employment … telecommuters a different kind of gender gap arises: women working from home during the pandemic spent more work time also doing … childcare and experienced greater productivity reductions than men. We discuss what our findings imply for gender equality in a …
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