the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …

share, but overall, the gender childcare gap (the difference between the share of childcare done by women and the share done …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 …

COVID-19 has uprooted many aspects of parents' daily routines, from their jobs to their childcare arrangements. In this … paper, we provide a novel description of how parents in England living in two-parent opposite-gender families are spending … extensive and intensive margins. We find that mothers are spending substantially longer in childcare and housework than their …

We examine changes in the gender gap in working from home (WFH) in response to the unanticipated first wave of the … COVID-19 pandemic. Using data from the American Time Use Survey, we find a non-negligible widening of the gender gap with … WFH being more prevalent among women than among men. Respondents' job traits played a significant role in the gender gap …

threatened by immigration. Less attention is given to effects on prices of goods and services. The effect on childcare prices is … particularly relevant to policies for dealing with the gender pay gap and below-replacement fertility rates, both thought to be …

this end, we analyse whether alcohol consumption decreases parents' time spent looking after children and working. Using …

addition, when examining the time spent by girls and boys in two-parent households, we find that the gender of the disabled … living with a disabled mother in a two-parent household spend more time on homework and less time on housework and caring for … both the gender of the teen and of the disabled parent, with teen girls likely being worse off than teen boys. Our results …