A child’s disability increases childcare demands causing two opposing effects on the mother’s labor supply: while some … types of disability require additional time spent reducing labor supply, othersrequire additional expenses increasing labor … supply. This paper studies the effect of a child’s disability on mothers’ labor supply using data from the 2019-20 IPUMS MICS …

We examine whether the COVID-19 crisis affects women and men differently in terms of employment, working hours and … as others, irrespective of gender and spousal employment. Third, single-parent essential workers experience relatively …