Childcare responsibilities explain only 5% of the gender gap in the early stage of the pandemic and about 20% of the gender employment gap in the late stages of the pandemic, following the prolonged school closure. [...] Table A.10 quantifies the portion of the gender gap in employment explained by economic sectors, calculated as the ratio of the gap between sector-reweighted female employment and female employment and the gap between male and female employment. [...] Our findings remain consistent in Figure A.13, where we plot average female and male employment by bins of the ratio of the number of school-age children to the number of adults in the household (the larger the ratio, the larger the childcare responsibilities of our respondent). [...] To quantify the contribution of childcare responsibilities to the emergence and the persistence of the gender gap in employment, we reweight the female sample so that the proportions of respondents with zero, one, and more than one school-age children in the household match those in the male sample. [...] Our sponsors had no role in the study design, collection, analysis and iterpretation of data, in the writing of the report and in the decision to submit the article for publication.
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