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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
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-age children have widened but not for those with younger children....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012669824
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Child care in the United States : markets, policy, and evidence
Herbst, Chris M. - 2022
Participation in non-parental child care arrangements is now the norm for preschool-age children in the U.S. However, child care services are becoming increasingly expensive for many families, and quality is highly uneven across providers and sectors, raising questions about the impact of child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013369000
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Universal child care, maternal employment, and children's long-run outcomes : evidence from the US Lanham Act of 1940
Herbst, Chris M. - 2013
suggests that mothers' paid work increased substantially following the introduction of the child care program. I then study the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229538
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The timing of maternal work and time with children
Stewart, Jay Charles - 2009
mothers of pre-school-age children spend doing enriching childcare and whether they adjust their schedules to spend time with … their children at more-desirable times of day. I find that employed mothers shift enriching childcare time from workdays to … shifting among part-time employed mothers. I find no evidence that full-time employed mothers adjust their schedules to spent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003860650
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Universal Child Care, Maternal Employment, and Children's Long-Run Outcomes : Evidence from the U.S. Lanham Act of 1940
Herbst, Chris M. - 2014
suggests that mothers' paid work increased substantially following the introduction of the child care program. I then study the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061451
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The evolving impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on gender inequality in the US labor market : the COVID motherhood penalty
Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W.; Xu, Huanan - In: Economic inquiry 60 (2022) 2, pp. 485-507
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013168137
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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
mobility in education, stems from heterogeneity in the effects of the policies: children of mothers with fewer years of … education benefit more. As a potential mechanism, we find that the policies increased mothers' time investments in children and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014437042
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Welfare Reform and the Quality of Young Children's Home Environments
Kalil, Ariel; Corman, Hope; Dave, Dhaval; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
-income mothers and reliance on their own earnings instead of cash assistance through the welfare system, on the quality of the home …'s skill development. The results suggest that welfare reform did not affect the amount of time and material resources mothers ….3-0.4 standard deviation lower scores on provision of emotional support, with stronger effects for mothers with low human capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362060
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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 - 2022
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-age children have widened but not for those with younger children....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014084037
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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
Fairlie, Robert W. - 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-age children have widened but not for those with younger children....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013323312