The COVID-19 pandemic has had very different impacts on the employment and family work conditions of men and women …

incorporates mental and physical health. Correlated mental and physical health production functions are simultaneously estimated …, including the endogenous decisions to seek psychotherapy and smoke cigarettes as health accumulation factors. The model is … indicate that mental health has a stronger impact on labor supply than physical health. At the same time, estimates show that …

, using an online sample of approximately 1,500 Prolific respondents residents in the UK. We find that women's mental health … future state of the UK economy, as measured by their forecasted contemporaneous and future unemployment rates. We also show … and housework more than men. Neither the gender gaps in COVID-19-related health and economic concerns nor the gender gaps …

This paper examines the effect of postpartum depression (PPD) on maternal employment in the UK and assesses the extent … of the direct and indirect link between PPD and maternal employment up to eleven years after the birth of the child. The … study tests a range of factors (marital status, physical longstanding health problems, mental health problems, children …

We investigate the role of employment in explaining changes in the mental health of single mothers compared to … health, higher employment, and longer working hours. We estimate a Heckman selection model for employment and hours worked. A … that employment was associated with better mental health for all women. Higher job hours were associated with lower mental …