Public School Access or Stay-at-Home Partner: Factors Mitigating the Adverse Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Academic Parents

Tatyana Deryugina, Olga Shurchkov and Jenna Stearns

AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2022, vol. 112, 267-71

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 offsets 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.

JEL-codes: H51 I12 I18 I21 I28 J12 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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