This study examines the sociodemographic divide in early labor market responses to the US COVID-19 epidemic and associated policies, benchmarked against two previous …
In recent US recessions, employment losses have been much larger for men than for women. Yet, in the current recession caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the opposite is true …
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The economic downturn ushered in by the COVID-19 pandemic stands in stark contrast to previous recessions because it has disproportionately affected women. Alon et al.(2020b) …
Little is known about the effects of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on older family caregivers. Using data from a national sample of 2,485 US adults aged≥ 55, we aimed to …
Stay-at-home orders (SAHOs) were implemented in most US states to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. This paper quantifies the impact of these containment policies on a measure of …
Background The COVID-19 disease has changed people's work and income. While recent evidence has documented the adverse impact of these changes on mental health outcomes …
Objective The COVID‐19 pandemic led to widespread school closures affecting millions of K‐ 12 students in the United States in the spring of 2020. Groups representing teachers have …
We examine how much of the overall decline in employment between the beginning of 2020 and 2021 can be explained by excess job loss among parents of young children, and …
Gender gaps in labor market outcomes during the pandemic are largely due to differences across parents: Employment and labor force participation fell much less for fathers as …