Fairlie, Robert W.; Couch, Kenneth A.; Xu, Huanan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We explore whether COVID-19 disproportionately affected women in the labor market using CPS data through the end of … 2020. We find that male-female gaps in the employment-to-population ratio and hours worked for women with school … reductions observed for women with school-age children being attributable to additional child care responsibilities (the "COVID …