2022
DOI: 10.1177/00197939221099184
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Schooling and Parental Labor Supply: Evidence from COVID-19 School Closures in the United States

Abstract: This article examines changes in parental labor supply in response to the unanticipated closure of schools following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. The authors collect detailed daily information on school closures at the school-district level, which they merge to individual-level data on labor supply and sociodemographic characteristics from the monthly Current Population Survey spanning from January 2019 through May 2020. Using a difference-in-differences estimation approach, the aut… Show more

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“…Initial studies anticipated the effect of pandemic restrictions on female labor supply and captured the first-hand impact of the pandemic on mothers' labor supply and time use (Alon et al, 2020;Heggeness, 2020a;Sevilla and Smith, 2020). Subsequent studies centered on pandemic responses and economic behavior in the United States, Canada, and Europe (Albanesi and Kim, 2021;Brinca et al, 2021;Croda and Grossbard, 2021;Farre et al, 2021;Heggeness and Suri, 2021;Hansen et al, 2022;Almuedo-Dorantes et al, 2023). These studies highlighted the gendered nature of caregiving, the relevance of work flexibility, and acknowledged a relationship between the availability of access to in-person school as a childcare mechanism and its relationship to caregivers' labor supply.…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Initial studies anticipated the effect of pandemic restrictions on female labor supply and captured the first-hand impact of the pandemic on mothers' labor supply and time use (Alon et al, 2020;Heggeness, 2020a;Sevilla and Smith, 2020). Subsequent studies centered on pandemic responses and economic behavior in the United States, Canada, and Europe (Albanesi and Kim, 2021;Brinca et al, 2021;Croda and Grossbard, 2021;Farre et al, 2021;Heggeness and Suri, 2021;Hansen et al, 2022;Almuedo-Dorantes et al, 2023). These studies highlighted the gendered nature of caregiving, the relevance of work flexibility, and acknowledged a relationship between the availability of access to in-person school as a childcare mechanism and its relationship to caregivers' labor supply.…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In particular, parents may not be able to keep their level of employment as the childcare burden increases. This argument is very prominent in the US (for example, Amuedo-Dorantes et al, 2022; Collins et al, 2021; Petts et al, 2021), but also in Europe many researchers have been concerned with the employment situation of parents, particularly of mothers (for example, for Germany: Fuchs-Schündeln and Stephan, 2020; Knize et al, 2022; Reichelt et al, 2021). This, in turn, might lead to a substantial loss of income for families as well as to a reduction in economic output, tax revenue, and social insurance contributions, thereby threatening the financial basis of the already strained social security system.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Several organizations and research teams have developed schooling mode trackers to measure the extent of traditional, hybrid, and virtual schooling that students obtained during the pandemic. A rapidly growing literature uses these trackers to estimate the consequences of reduced in-person instruction on student enrollment and academic achievement ( Dee et al, 2021 , Dorn et al, 2021 , Engzell et al, 2021 , Goldhaber et al, 2022 , Jack et al, 2022 , Kogan and Lavertu, 2021 , Lewis et al, 2021 ), COVID infection and death rates ( Chernozhukov et al, 2021a , Ertem et al, 2021 ), as well as local labor market outcomes ( Amuedo-Dorantes et al, 2023 , Garcia and Cowan, 2022 , Landivar et al, 2022 , Prados et al, 2021 ).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%