The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the sharpest global economic downturn since the
Great Depression. Figure 1 displays deviations from long-term trends in gross domestic …

The economic downturn caused by the current COVID-19 outbreak has substantial
implications for gender equality, both during the downturn and the subsequent recovery …

In recent US recessions, employment losses have been much larger for men than for
women. Yet, in the current recession caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the opposite is true …

We review and assess the monetary policy framework currently used by the Federal
Reserve, with special focus on policies that operate through the slope of the term structure …

Traditionally, economic growth and business cycles have been treated independently.
However, the dependence of GDP levels on its history of shocks, what economists refer to as …

Population growth has declined markedly in almost all major economies since the 1970s.
We argue this trend has important consequences for the process of firm dynamics and …

This paper studies the impact of changing trends in female labor supply on productivity, TFP
growth and aggregate business cycles. We find that the growth in women's labor supply and …

Fertility in the US exhibits an increasingly more procyclical pattern. We argue that women's
breadwinner status is behind procyclical and lower fertility:(i) women's relative income in the …

I develop a Heterogeneous Agent New Keynesian model with dual-earner households that
offers new insights into the role of spousal labor supply at both the micro and the macro …

This article examines the connections between women's reproductive health, care
responsibilities, and the quality of work. The research suggests that the economic …