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Baby steps: the gender division of childcare during the COVID-19 pandemic
Sevilla, Almudena; Smith, Sarah - 2020
The COVID19 pandemic has caused shocks to the demand for home childcare (with the closure of schools and nurseries) and the supply of home childcare (with many people not working). We collect real-time data on daily lives to document that UK families with young children have been doing the...
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The Impact of the COVID-19 Social Isolation Measures on the Resilience and Quality of Life of Working Mothers
Hadjicharalambous, Demetris; Athanasiadi-Charchanti, … - 2020
the pandemic seem to have affected the working mothers’ resilience, health, and quality of life. The purpose of this study … is to examine how working mothers reacted during the COVID-19 pandemic and how the state imposed quarantine affected … participants, all working mothers. We administered two questionnaires, namely the World Health Organization Quality Of Life (WHOQOL …
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Working women worldwide : age effects in female labor force participation in 117 countries
Besamusca, Janna; Tijdens, Kea Gartje; Keune, Maarten; … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 74 (2015), pp. 123-141
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Working mothers, children, and family policies
Koll, David - 2020
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The globalization of motherhood : deconstructions and reconstructions of biology and care
Chavkin, Wendy (contributor); Maher, JaneMaree (contributor) - 2010
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From mancession to shecession: women's employment in regular and pandemic recessions
Alon, Titan; Coskun, Sena; Doepke, Matthias; Koll, David; … - 2021
We examine the impact of the global recession triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic on women's versus men's employment. Whereas recent recessions in advanced economies usually had a disproportionate impact on men's employment, giving rise to the moniker "mancessions," we show that the pandemic...
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Motherhood Employment Penalty and Gender Wage Gap Across Countries : 1990–2010
Chu, Yu-Wei Luke - 2020
In this paper, we use twin birth as an instrument to estimate the effects of fertility on female labor force participation using 70 censuses from 36 countries in 1990–2010. We document a strong relationship between the gender wage gap and the size of the motherhood penalty. The penalty is...
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Mothers at peace : international peacebuilding and post-conflict fertility
Bove, Vincenzo; Di Salvatore, Jessica; Elia, Leandro; … - 2023
A considerable body of empirical evidence indicates that conflict affects reproductive behaviour, often resulting in an increased fertility rate due to higher child mortality and limited access to healthcare services. However, we know much less about the effect of peace in a post-conflict...
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Long-term effects of early childhood care and education
Ruhm, Christopher J.; Waldfogel, Jane - 2011
This paper critically reviews what we know about the long-term effects of parental leave and early childhood education programs. We find only limited evidence that expansions of parental leave durations improved long-run educational or labor market outcomes of the children whose parents were...
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Can the vaccinations end the Covid-19 pandemic?
Greiner, Alfred; Owusu, Benjamin Darkwa - 2022
In this paper we empirically analyze the effect of the vaccinations against the SARS-CoV-2 virus on the Covid-19 pandemic for European countries from February 2021 to February 2022 with weekly data. We perform panel fixed effects estimations, GMM estimations and nonlinear penalized spline...
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