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The evolving impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on gender inequality in the U.S. labor market: the COVID motherhood penalty
Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W.; Xu, Huanan - 2021
2020. We find that male-female gaps in the employment-to-population ratio and hours worked for women with school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012669824
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Longer school schedules, childcare and the quality of mothers' employment : evidence from school reform in Chile
Berthelon, Matias; Kruger, Diana; Lauer, Catalina; … - 2020
participation and employment. In this paper, we investigate whether increased childcare for primary school children improves the … exogenous temporal and spatial variations in school schedules with a panel of individual mothers' employment between 2002 and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012208607
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Longer School Schedules, Childcare and the Quality of Mothers’ Employment : Evidence from School Reform in Chile
Berthelon, Matias; Kruger, Diana; Lauer, Catalina; … - 2020
-force participation and employment. By estimating the causal effect of a school schedule reform in Chile, we investigated whether … exogenous temporal and spatial variations in school schedules with a panel of mothers’ employment between 2002 and 2015, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014095847
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Browsers Don't Lie? Gender Differences in the Effects of the Indian COVID-19 Lockdown on Digital Activity and Time Use
Miller, Amalia R.; Ramdas, Kamalini; Sungu, Alp - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
's employment. Consistent with increased childcare obligations driving the observed gender gaps, we find that gaps were greatest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014437050
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Potential impact of daycare closures on parental child caregiving in Turkey
Memiş, Emel; Kongar, Ebru - 2020
Daycares closed on March 16, 2020 in Turkey to prevent the spread of COVID-19. At the same time, the two most common nonparental childcare arrangements in Turkey-care of children by grandparents and nannies-became undesirable due to health concerns and in some cases also unfeasible due to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012317630
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The effects of child care provision in Mexico
Calderón, Gabriela - 2014
In 2007, seeking to increase female labor force participation and more generally ease burdens on working women, the Mexican government introduced an enormous expansion of a child care program: Estancias Infantiles para Apoyar a Madres Trabajadoras (EI). EI covers 90 percent approximately of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010370086
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The Intergenerational Effects of Parental Leave : Exploiting Forty Years of U.S. Policy Variation
Flores, Andrea M.; Gayle, George-Levi; Hincapié, Andrés - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the effects of job-protected leave policies on intergenerational mobility, long-run child outcomes, and parental decisions (labor market, investments in children, and fertility). We merge rich sources of historical information on family leave policies across the United States since 1973...
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Secondary childcare in the ATUS : what does it measure?
Stewart, Jay Charles; Allard, Mary Dorinda - 2015
Unlike most of the earlier U.S. time-use surveys, the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) does not collect information on secondary activities. It does, however, include a set of questions asking respondents to identify times when a child under 13 was "in your care." The goal of these questions is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346580
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The impacts of paid family leave benefits : regression kink evidence from California administrative data
Bana, Sarah; Bedard, Kelly; Rossin-Slater, Maya - 2018
Although the United States provides unpaid maternity and family leave to qualifying workers, it is the only OECD country without a national paid leave policy, making wage replacement a pivotal issue under debate. We use ten years of linked administrative data from California together with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011810214
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COVID-19 and the employment gender gap
Fukai, Taiyo; Ikeda, Masato; Kawaguchi, Daiji; … - 2021
This paper examines how the COVID-19 pandemic affected female employment in Japan. Our estimates indicate that the … employment rate of married women with children decreased by 4 percentage points, while that of those without children decreased …' employment. Further, mothers who left or lost their jobs appear to have dropped out of the labor force even several months after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012612860