We study the adoption of telework during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. We assemble a novel high-frequency database of job postings advertising work from home (telework) covering 20 countries and 55 occupation categories, using data from the online job site Indeed. Exploiting changes in...

Women experience significant reductions in labor market income following the birth of children, while their male partners experience no such income drops. This "relative child penalty" has been well documented and accounts for a significant amount of the gender income gap. In this paper we do...

Children cause large earnings drops for mothers but not fathers, a stylized fact known as the "child penalty" that explains a substantial portion of remaining gender income gaps. Can policy reduce the child penalty? We first document how changes in the child penalty over a long time horizon in...