TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina
AU  - Marcén, Miriam
AU  - Morales, Marina
AU  - Sevilla, Almudena
        TI  - COVID-19 School Closures and Parental Labor Supply in the United States
        PY  - 2020/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 13827
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp13827
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - parental labor supply
KW  - school closures
KW  - COVID-19
KW  - United States
        ER  -