widening/closing the gender gap in parental childcare during the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany. We consider prepandemic division … egalitarian division that, however, faded out in subsequent months. Starting from a fairly “traditional” prepandemic childcare … the necessity vanishes. Further, a shift is observed only if fathers were to some extent involved in childcare prepandemic …

Despite changing gender norms, few fathers decide to take parental leave after the birth of a child, and when they do …

amount of the gender income gap. In this paper we do two things. First, we use a simple household model to better understand … the potential mechanisms driving the child penalty, which include gender norms around child care, female preferences for … in heterosexual couples is primarily explained by female preferences for child care and gender norms, with a smaller …