Price, Brendan M.; Wasserman, Melanie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
's total hours worked fall by 9.8 percent, more than 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 …