TY  - JOUR
A1  - Jessen, Jonas
A1  - Spiess, C. Katharina
A1  - Waights, Sevrin
A1  - Wrohlich, Katharina
T1  - The gender division of unpaid care work throughout the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany
JF  - German economic review
N2  - The COVID-19 pandemic and related closures of day care centres and schools significantly increased the amount of care work done by parents. There has been much speculation over whether the pandemic increased or decreased gender equality in parental care work. Based on representative data for Germany from spring 2020 and winter 2021 we present an empirical analysis that shows that although gender inequality in the division of care work increased to some extent in the beginning of the pandemic, it returned to the pre-pandemic level in the second lockdown almost nine months later. These results suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic neither aggravated nor lessened inequality in the division of unpaid care work among mothers and fathers in any persistent way in Germany.
KW  - gender division
KW  - domestic work
KW  - child care
KW  - day care
KW  - gender care gap
KW  - COVID-19
Y1  - 2023
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1515/ger-2022-0003
SN  - 1465-6485
SN  - 1468-0475
VL  - 23
IS  - 4
SP  - 641
EP  - 667
PB  - De Gruyter
CY  - Berlin
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bauernschuster, Stefan
A1  - Borck, Rainald
T1  - Formal Child Care and Family Structure: Theory and Evidence
JF  - CESifo economic studies : a joint initiative of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and Ifo Institute for Economic Research
N2  - This article studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with positive assortative matching, where in equilibrium, the poorest women stay single. Couples have to decide on the number of children and spousal specialization in home production of public goods and child care. We then study how child care provision affects the equilibrium. Due to specialization in home production, the incentive to use child care is smaller for married mothers than for single mothers. We show that this increases the number of single mothers and the divorce rate. Using survey data from Germany, we present suggestive empirical evidence consistent with this finding. (JEL codes: J12 and J13).
KW  - marriage
KW  - divorce
KW  - single parenthood
KW  - child care
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1093/cesifo/ifv025
SN  - 1610-241X
SN  - 1612-7501
VL  - 62
SP  - 699
EP  - 724
PB  - Oxford Univ. Press
CY  - Oxford
ER  -