Public School Access or Stay-at-Home Partner: Factors Mitigating the Adverse Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Academic Parents / Tatyana Deryugina, Olga Shurchkov, Jenna E. Stearns.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Deryugina, Tatyana.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Shurchkov, Olga.

Stearns, Jenna E.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w29668.

NBER working paper series no. w29668

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2022.

Summary:

The COVID-19 pandemic created unexpected and prolonged disruptions to childcare access. Using survey evidence on time use by academic researchers before and after the pandemic, we analyze the extent to which greater access to either school-based or partner-provided childcare mitigated the severe disruptions to research observed among parents during COVID-19. We find that access to public schools offset the research time loss to a greater extent among mothers of young children relative to fathers, narrowing the emerging post-pandemic gender gap. Having a stay-at-home partner reduced the disruptions to research time equally for both genders.

Notes:

Print version record

January 2022.