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-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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Parents invest both their material resources and their time into raising their children. Time investment in children is … sectional 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 …
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Birth order has been found to have a surprisingly large influence on educational attainment, yet much less is known about the role of birth order on delinquency outcomes such as disciplinary problems in school, juvenile delinquency, and adult crime: outcomes that carry significant negative...
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study includes a representative sample of hourly service-sector workers parents of a young child from a major U.S. city (N … = 679); half are non-Hispanic Black, 23% are Hispanic; 18% are non-Hispanic White. Parents were asked to complete 30 days of …
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spouses' time to work, leisure, and childcare. In an environment with uncertainty, the allocation of goods and time over the …
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We study the response of an economy to an unexpected epidemic. Households mitigate the spread of the disease by reducing consumption, reducing hours worked, and working from home. Working from home is subject to learning-by-doing and the capacity of the health care system is limited. A social...
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This study explores the effect of school reopenings during the COVID-19 pandemic on married women's labor supply. We proxy for in-person attendance at US K-12 schools using smartphone data from Safegraph and measure female employment, hours, and remote work using the Current Population Survey....
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Little is known about individual beliefs concerning the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). Still less is known about …
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