The recession induced by the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in major declines in employment of women, both from the demand … married mothers with older children. School closures are also important for married women with school-age children and … facilities. We provide projections of possible impacts of this reduction on less-educated women's future human capital framed …

caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the opposite is true: unemployment is higher among women. In this paper, we analyze the …In recent US recessions, employment losses have been much larger for men than for women. Yet, in the current recession … causes and consequences of this phenomenon. We argue that women have experienced sharp employment losses both because their …

low-income women. Accounting for 2020’s reductions in access to contraception and the economic slowdown, our results … predict a modest decline in births of 1.1 percent in 2021 for low-income women. Further accounting for reductions in access to … abortion implies that birth rates may even rise for low-income women. These results also suggest that already economically …

are abandoned are girls and a majority of the children who are abducted are boys. We provide empirical evidence for the …In the past 40 years, a large number of children have been abandoned or abducted in China. We argue that the …, the cultural preference for sons in China has shaped unique gender-based patterns whereby a majority of the children who …

The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected American children, including disruptions to their care and school … settings. Children attending in-person child care or school have contended with unpredictable closures and time in remote … investigated the frequency and consequences of disruptions to children’s child care and school arrangements during fall 2020. The …

fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a … significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher degree of positive assortative mating; (v) more children … living with a single mother; (vi) shifts in social norms governing premarital sex and married women's roles in the workplace …

The modern economic role of women emerged in four phases. The first three were evolutionary; the last was revolutionary … women's choices distinguish the evolutionary from the revolutionary phases: horizon, identity, and decision-making. The … time-series evidence on women's more predictable attachment to the workplace, greater identity with career, and better …

There is limited empirical evidence on whether unrestricted cash social assistance to poor pregnant women improves … children's birth outcomes. Using program administrative micro-data matched to longitudinal vital statistics on the universe of …

expansions in Medicaid eligibility for pregnant women in the late 1980s and the early 1990s on labor supply, which is one of the … year was employed. Among unmarried women with less than a high school education, the change in Medicaid eligibility reduced …

vaccination rate increases among children at school entry following an outbreak in the year prior. A large outbreak in the county … can decrease the share of unvaccinated children by 28% (1.2 percentage points). These responses do not reflect true …