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Women in political power and school closure during COVID times
Danzer, Natalia; Garcia-Torres, Sebastian; Steinhardt, … - 2023
This study explores the relationship between women's representation in political power and school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a cross-country dataset in Europe, we document a striking negative relationship between the share of female members in national governments and school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014229178
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Women in Political Power and School Closure During COVID Times
Danzer, Natalia; Garcia-Torres, Sebastian; Steinhardt, … - 2023
This study explores the relationship between women's representation in political power and school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a cross-country dataset in Europe, we document a striking negative relationship between the share of female members in national governments and school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014260331
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School closures and parental labor supply : differential effects of anticipated and unanticipated closures
Schroeter, Sofia; Lalive, Rafael; Karunanethy, Kalaivani - 2024
This paper studies the labor supply responses of parents to anticipated school closures due to school holidays and unanticipated school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Switzerland. Using the variation in the timing of school holidays by region, we find that while both fathers and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015077921
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Gender, growth mindset, and COVID-19 : a cluster randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh
Seager, Jennifer; Asaduzzaman, T. M.; Baird, Sarah; … - In: Review of Economic Analysis : REA 14 (2022) 2, pp. 183-219
the pandemic for girls, a covid-19 pandemic-related gender gap persists. Our findings suggest that a virtually … needed to address gender differences in adolescent outcomes. …
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Well-being throughout the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany : gendered effects of daycare and school closures
Huebener, Mathias; Waights, Sevrin; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2024
. We also show that the size of the gender gap in life satisfaction fluctuates over time in a way that is related to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014511548
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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
's impact on the labor market. Another notable finding is the central role of telecommuting: gender gaps in the employment … telecommuters a different kind of gender gap arises: women working from home during the pandemic spent more work time also doing … childcare and experienced greater productivity reductions than men. We discuss what our findings imply for gender equality in a …
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This time it's different: the role of women's employment in a pandemic recession
Alon, Titan; Doepke, Matthias; Olmstead-Rumsey, Jane; … - 2020
macroeconomic model featuring heterogeneity in gender, marital status, childcare needs, and human capital. Our quantitative analysis … within-household insurance; ii) result in a widening of the gender wage gap throughout the recovery; and iii) contribute to a … weakening of the gender norms that currently produce a lopsided distribution of the division of labor in home work and childcare. …
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Human capital and education policy : evidence from survey data
Grewenig, Elisabeth - 2021
investigates the impact of gender norms on labor-supply expectations of adolescents. Chapter 3 analyzes the effects of the Corona …
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The legacy of Covid-19 in education
Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
If school closures and social-distancing experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic impeded children's skill development, they may leave a lasting legacy in human capital. To understand the pandemic's effects on school children, this paper combines a review of the emerging international literature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012649748
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The legacy of Covid-19 in education
Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
If school closures and social-distancing experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic impeded children’s skill development, they may leave a lasting legacy in human capital. To understand the pandemic’s effects on school children, this paper combines a review of the emerging international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013189581