Gender differences in couples' division of childcare, work and mental health during COVID-19 [0.03%]
新冠疫情下夫妻之间在育儿、工作和精神健康分配上的性别差异
Gema Zamarro,María J Prados
Gema Zamarro
The current COVID-19 crisis, with its associated school and daycare closures as well as social-distancing requirements, has the potential to magnify gender differences both in terms of childcare arrangements within the household and at work...
Are COVID fatalities in the US higher than in the EU, and if so, why? [0.03%]
美国新冠肺炎死亡病例数高于欧盟国家吗？如果有，原因是什么？
Ainoa Aparicio,Shoshana Grossbard
Ainoa Aparicio
The COVID crisis has severely hit both the United States and Europe. We construct comparable measures of the death toll of the COVID crisis suffered by US states and 35 European countries: cumulative fatalities attributed to COVID at 100 da...
Mathias Huebener,Sevrin Waights,C Katharina Spiess et al.
Mathias Huebener et al.
We examine the effects of Covid-19 and related restrictions on individuals with dependent children in Germany. We specifically focus on the role of day care center and school closures, which may be regarded as a "disruptive exogenous shock"...
Consumption and geographic mobility in pandemic times. Evidence from Mexico [0.03%]
新冠疫情下的消费与地域流动性——来自墨西哥的证据
Raymundo M Campos-Vazquez,Gerardo Esquivel
Raymundo M Campos-Vazquez
We analyze the universe of point-of-sale (POS) transactions before and during the COVID-19 lockdown in Mexico. We find three key results. First, consumption in Mexico fell by 23 percent in the April-June quarter of 2020 and by 16 percent fr...
Working parents, financial insecurity, and childcare: mental health in the time of COVID-19 in the UK [0.03%]
新冠疫情下的英国：工作父母、金融不安全和儿童保育：疫情期间的心理健康状况
Zhiming Cheng,Silvia Mendolia,Alfredo R Paloyo et al.
Zhiming Cheng et al.
The COVID-19 pandemic and the policy measures to control its spread-lockdowns, physical distancing, and social isolation-have coincided with the deterioration of people's mental well-being. We use data from the UK Household Longitudinal Stu...
The impact of closing schools on working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence using panel data from Japan [0.03%]
基于日本面板数据的新冠肺炎疫情期间学校关闭对居家办公影响的实证研究
Eiji Yamamura,Yoshiro Tsustsui
Eiji Yamamura
COVID-19 has led to the closure of various schools in Japan to cope with the pandemic. This study explores how school closure influences parents' work style based on short panel data for the period of school closure from mid-March to mid-Ap...
Lin-Chi Hsu,Alexander Henke
Lin-Chi Hsu
We analyze how staying at home during the COVID-19 pandemic affects the rates of domestic violence in the U.S. Using police dispatch and crime data from 36 police and sheriff's departments and mobile device tracking data, we find that repor...
Male employment and female intra-household decision-making: a Mexican gold mining case study [0.03%]
男性就业与女性家庭决策：墨西哥矿业案例研究
Audrey Au Yong Lyn
Audrey Au Yong Lyn
This study explores the effect of economic booms in male-dominated industries like mining on female intra-household decision-making power. Using the 2007-2008 global financial crisis as an exogenous event which led to a gold mining boom in ...
The usual suspects: do risk tolerance, altruism, and health predict the response to COVID-19? [0.03%]
惯犯：风险承受能力、利他主义和健康会预测对COVID-19的反应吗？
Ketki Sheth,Greg C Wright
Ketki Sheth
We survey college students during California's stay-at-home order to test whether compliance with social distancing requirements depends on primary preferences and characteristics that affect their marginal benefit from doing so. We find a ...
Estimating the immediate impact of the COVID-19 shock on parental attachment to the labor market and the double bind of mothers [0.03%]
估计COVID-19疫情对父母劳动力市场依附关系的直接影响以及母亲面临的双重困境
Misty L Heggeness
Misty L Heggeness
I examine the impact of the COVID-19 shock on parents' labor supply during the initial stages of the pandemic. Using difference-in-difference estimation and monthly panel data from the Current Population Survey (CPS), I compare labor market...