Mothers' caregiving during COVID: The impact of marital property laws on women's labor force status.
COVID
Gender gap
Labor supply
Marital property laws
Journal
Economics and human biology
ISSN: 1873-6130
Titre abrégé: Econ Hum Biol
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 101166135
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
12 2022
12 2022
Historique:
received:
20
09
2021
revised:
28
07
2022
accepted:
29
07
2022
pubmed:
16
8
2022
medline:
7
12
2022
entrez:
15
8
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
If mothers take care of children more than fathers, then after the onset of COVID-19 mothers' employment is expected to drop more than that of fathers. This gender gap is likely to be larger where women are less concerned about the financial repercussions of opting out of the labor force, and therefore the gender gap in employment is likely to grow more where community property or homemaking provisions give more protection to homemakers in case of union dissolution. Difference-in-differences and dynamic study estimations applied to CPS data for 2019-2020 show that after the onset of COVID-19 the labor force participation of mothers of school-age children-but not of fathers--dropped more in states with marital property laws more generous to parental caregivers. These results stand in contrast to how these groups' labor force participation changed after the Great Recession, compared to pre-recession levels.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35969968
pii: S1570-677X(22)00066-1
doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2022.101170
pmc: PMC9340130
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
101170Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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