work from home. The lockdown led to a large increase in childcare and housework, given the closing of schools and the … inability to outsource. We find that men increased their participation in housework and childcare slightly, but most of the … crisis appears to have increased gender inequalities in both paid and unpaid work in the short-term. …

In this paper, we examine whether culture plays a role in the gender division of household labor. To explore this issue … gender division of housework may be due to cultural differences. We find that the higher the culture of gender equality in … housework and childcare as household labor. Our work is extended by examining how culture operates and is transmitted. We study …

This paper assesses the impact of a large expansion of public childcare in Germany on wage inequality. Exploiting … regional variation in childcare supply over the 1990s, I show that in regions with stronger increases in childcare, wage … half of the wage distribution and qualitatively similar for full- and part-time workers. Larger expansions in childcare …

fathers by about 1 hour per week. Respondents who hold more egalitarian gender beliefs, those with tertiary education, native …

We study the effect of childcare availability on child penalties. Using Swiss administrative data, we exploit the … staggered opening od childcare facilities across municipalities in the canton of Bern. We find that the presence of childcare … facilities in the year of birth of the first child reduces the child penalty. The availability of childcare increases maternal …

related leave may impact the gender division of domestic work beyond the period of leave and examines three theoretical … explanations: 1) development of domestic work skills, 2) bargaining power based on economic resources, and 3) adaptations in gender … greater shift towards a gender-traditional division of domestic labour after childbirth even in the medium-term after labour …

We develop a model to study the impact on gender gaps in participation and wages of a liquidity constraint that … gender gaps in the labour market. In this framework, an extension of paid maternity leave duration has ambiguous effects on … gender inequality. In contrast, child care subsidies, which require higher taxes, and loans, which do not, unambiguously …

few mothers indicate that they would start working if better access to formal childcare were available. Switching to the …

, differential effects by gender, couple status, and parental status exist. Coupled women were less likely to be working than coupled …

data on all Dutch employees up to 30 June 2020, focussing on the national lockdown and the emergency childcare for … as others, irrespective of gender and spousal employment. Third, single-parent essential workers experience relatively … large negative labour supply effects, suggesting emergency childcare was not sufficient for this group. However, overall …