%0 Report
        %A Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina
%A Marcén, Miriam
%A Morales, Marina
%A Sevilla, Almudena
        %T COVID-19 School Closures and Parental Labor Supply in the United States
        %D 2020
        %8 2020 Oct
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 13827
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp13827
        %X We examine the role of school closures in contributing to the negative labor market impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. We collect detailed daily information on school closures at the school-district level, which we merge to individual level data on various employment and socio- demographic characteristics from the monthly Current Population Survey from January 2019 through May 2020. Using a difference-in-differences estimation approach, we gauge how the intensity of school closures affects the labor supply of mothers and fathers of young school-age children. We find evidence of non-negligible labor supply reductions, particularly among mothers. These impacts prove robust to endogeneity checks and persist after accounting for other social-distancing measures in place.
        %K parental labor supply
%K school closures
%K COVID-19
%K United States