Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/250670 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15009
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
gender differences
COVID-19
academia
JEL: 
D10
J16
J44
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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