We examine changes in the gender gap in working from home (WFH) in response to the unanticipated first wave of the … COVID-19 pandemic. Using data from the American Time Use Survey, we find a non-negligible widening of the gender gap with … WFH being more prevalent among women than among men. Respondents' job traits played a significant role in the gender gap …

Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in … educational activities and less time on physical and media related activities. These gender gaps in time allocation appear at very … young ages and widen overtime. We provide novel evidence that gender differentials in time investment are quantitatively …

that, between earlier in 2020 before the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic and June 2020, women had increased childcare … and housework more than men. Neither the gender gaps in COVID-19-related health and economic concerns nor the gender gaps … in the increase in hours of childcare and housework can be accounted for by a rich set of control variables. Instead, we …

In 2020, parents' work-from-home days increased fourfold following the initial COVID-19 pandemic lockdown period … classrooms, increasing the demand for household-provided childcare. Using time diaries from American Time Use Survey (ATUS) and … looking at parents in dual-earner couples, we examine parents' weekday workday time allocated to paid work, chores, and …

This paper contributes to the debate on the revision of the Barcelona targets on childcare, as promoted by the European … Commission in 2022, that aims to provide childcare for children below the age of 3. Using EUROLAB, a structural model of labour … alternative scenarios of formal childcare policies in European countries with very low child care provision for children below 3 …

Prior literature analyzing gender differences in commuting has reported that men commute longer distance/time than do … women, and one explanation for this gender gap is based on household responsibilities falling on women. But most of the … literature examining gender differences in commuting has not considered the interdependence that exists between the members of …

Gender inequality is much more than wage gaps. Indeed, one interesting case is how individuals allocate time among … different activities such as paid work, unpaid work and domestic work. This paper aims to quantify gender inequality in the time … use in unpaid care and home activities and to investigate the main drivers of gender gaps in Colombia using the National …

Ample empirical evidence has found that access to childcare for preschool children increases mothers' labor force … participation and employment. In this paper, we investigate whether increased childcare for primary school children improves the … was the effect of the reform's implicit subsidy to the cost of childcare on the opportunity cost of mothers' time. We also …

Little literature currently exists on the effects of childcare use on maternal labor market outcomes in a developing … regression discontinuity estimator based on children's birth months, we find a sizable effect of childcare attendance on women …'s labor market outcomes, including their total annual wages, household income, and poverty status. The effects of childcare …

gender neutral. Given the large pre-existing gender gaps in employment, in absolute terms, more men lost employment than … employed than men who were employed pre-lockdown. India has amongst the most unequal gender division of household work globally … housework per day increased post-lockdown. This seems to be driven by increased male unemployment. The time spent with friends …