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Title: The effect of mandatory child care center closures on women's labor market outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Publication Year: 2020

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Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a dramatic effect on women's labor market outcomes. We assess the effects of state-level policies that mandated the closure of child care centers or imposed class size restrictions using a triple-differences approach that exploits variation across states, across time, and across women who did and did not have young children who could have been affected. We find some evidence that both of these policies increase the unemployment rate of mothers of young children in the short term. In the long term, the effects of mandated closures on unemployment become even larger and persist even after states discontinue closures, consistent with a permanent child care supply side effect.

Url: https://cepr.org/system/files/publication-files/101414-covid_economics_issue_62.pdf#page=129

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Authors: Russell, Lauren; Sun, Cuxuan

Periodical (Full): Covid Economics

Issue: 18

Volume: 62

Pages: 124-154

Data Collections: IPUMS CPS

Topics: Health, Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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