men experienced disproportionate job losses and women's entry into the labor force gathered pace. Using the American Time … mirrored in unpaid work, personal care, and leisure time. We find that the gender gap in unpaid work followed a U … of gender segregation in housework and, through a standard decomposition analysis of time use by employment status, show …

Time Use Survey (ATUS) data for 2003-2010, this study examines whether the narrowing gap in paid work over this period was … mirrored in unpaid work, personal care and leisure time. We find that the gender gap in unpaid work followed a U … of gender segregation in housework and through a standard decomposition analysis of time use by employment status we show …

provide novel evidence that infant health is countercyclical based on timing of conception, but procyclical based on time in …We revisit the cyclical nature of birth rates and infant health and investigate to what extent the relationship between … utero. The negative relationship between the in utero aggregate unemployment rate and infant health also disappears when …

study tests a range of factors (marital status, physical longstanding health problems, mental health problems, children … effects are mediated primarily through subsequent maternal mental and physical health problems. …

collapses and movements in variables such as health and well-being. Using nationally-representative samples of older people … this massive fall in wealth, measures of health and well-being remained broadly unchanged. However, expectations about … recessions do not have widespread negative effects on health and well-being. …