This paper estimates the effect of childcare availability on parents' employment probability using the timing of death … mechanisms. Through their impact on childcare availability, grandmothers' deaths reduce mothers' employment rate by 12 percentage … points (27 percent) and do not affect fathers' employment rate. The negative effect on mothers' employment is smaller where …

progress in narrowing the employment gender gap. …This paper examines how the COVID-19 pandemic affected female employment in Japan. Our estimates indicate that the … employment rate of married women with children decreased by 4 percentage points, while that of those without children decreased …

job employment. This indicates that while overconfidence matters for gender inequality in the labor market and has …There is a large gender gap in the probability of being in a "top job" in mid-career. Top jobs bring higher earnings … women. We then use linear regression and decomposition techniques to account for the gender gap in top jobs including our …

There is a large gender gap in the probability of being in a "top job" in mid-career. Top jobs bring higher earnings … women. We then use linear regression and decomposition techniques to account for the gender gap in top jobs including our … measure of overconfidence. Our results show that men being more overconfident explains 5-11 percent of the gender gap in top …

unemployment rates. But scant, if any, evidence exists on gender gaps in economic outcomes such as income, expenditure, savings …, and job loss in a multi-country setting. We investigate the impacts of COVID-19 on gender inequality in these outcomes … industries for men and women may take an important part in explaining these gender gaps. Our estimates also point to country …

May of 2020. We document large employment losses during the lockdown, especially in "quarantined" sectors and non …-essential sectors that do not allow for remote work. Employment losses were mostly temporary, and hit lower-educated workers … crisis appears to have increased gender inequalities in both paid and unpaid work in the short-term. …

, persistently large gender gaps in terms of labor supply, earnings, and representation in top jobs remain. Moreover, in countries … the role of children and show that many potential explanations for the remaining gender disparities in labor market … relative to men. In the U.S., we document that close to two-thirds of the overall gender earnings gap can be accounted for by …