Using data from the UK, we show that girls have been affected more than boys by the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of their … mental wellbeing. These gender differences are more pronounced in lower-income families. Our results are consistent with … previous findings of larger pandemic effects on mental health of women …

Using data from the UK, we show that girls have been affected more than boys by the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of their … mental wellbeing. These gender differences are more pronounced in lower-income families. Our results are consistent with … previous findings of larger pandemic effects on mental health of women …

The paper analyzes the impact of an experimental maternal and child health and family-planning program that was … nearly two decades. Women in program villages also experienced other benefits: lower child mortality, improved health status …, and greater use of preventive health inputs. Some benefits also diffused beyond the boundaries of the program villages …

We investigate gender differences across socioeconomic and wellbeing dimensions after three months of lockdown in the … regards to age, sex and ethnicity. We find that women's mental health is worse than men's along the four metrics we collected … hours, but increased housework and childcare much more than men. These gender inequalities are not driven by differences in …

This study identifies a new mechanism to account for the persistent gender differences in earnings after childbirth … conditions at the time of childbearing widen the gender gap among parents. Employing the instrumental variable (IV) method … time and accounts for 30 40 percent of the after-childbirth gender gap in earnings. Unintended impacts of recession on …