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Did Covid-19 disproportionately affect mothers’ labor market activity?

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  • Daniel Aaronson
  • Luojia Hu
  • Aastha Rajan

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School and day care center restrictions during the Covid-19 pandemic have presented enormous challenges to parents trying to juggle work with child-care responsibilities. Still, empirical evidence on the impact of pandemic-related child-care constraints on the labor market outcomes of working parents is somewhat mixed. Some studies suggest the pandemic had no additional impact on the labor supply of parents, while other studies show not only that it did but that the negative impact was disproportionately borne by working mothers.

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  • Daniel Aaronson & Luojia Hu & Aastha Rajan, 2021. "Did Covid-19 disproportionately affect mothers’ labor market activity?," Chicago Fed Letter, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, issue 450, pages 1-5, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:fip:fedhle:92313
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    Keywords

    COVID-19; labor force participation; labor supply; childcare; Economics of Gender;
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    JEL classification:

    • J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J20 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - General

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