Primary school reopenings and parental work

Arbeitspapier

In this paper, we exploit the geographical pattern of primary school reopenings during the COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec to estimate the impact of school reopenings on parental employment and work hours. We first use a difference-in-differences approach, in which we compare parents of primary-school children in regions where school reopened in May 2020 to similar parents in regions where schools remained closed. We also use a triple-difference model, in which parents of older, secondary-school children are used as an additional control group. We estimate the impact of school reopenings separately for mothers and fathers, and for single parents and parents living in dualparent households. We find a positive impact of school reopenings on employment and on actual hours worked. The effects tend to be stronger for single parents: single mothers have experienced a 20 percentage point increase in their employment rate following school reopenings. We also split our sample according to whether the job can be done from home, and find stronger impacts for those whose jobs cannot easily be done from home. Our results suggest that reopening schools allows parents, especially single parents, to maintain their employment link and support themselves.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Research Group on Human Capital - Working Paper Series ; No. 20-06

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Education and Inequality ; Education: Government Policy ; Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure ; Time Allocation and Labor Supply
• Thema: school closures ; school reopenings ; labour market ; employment ; work hours ; pandemic ; Canada

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Beauregard, Pierre-Loup ; Connolly, Marie ; Haeck, Catherine ; Molnár, Tímea Laura
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Université du Québec à Montréal, École des sciences de la gestion (ESG UQAM), Groupe de recherche sur le capital humain (GRCH)
• (wo): Montréal
• (wann): 2020

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/228769
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 20.09.2024, 08:20 MESZ