From mancession to shecession: Women's employment in regular and pandemic recessions

T Alon, S Coskun, M Doepke, D Koll… - NBER …, 2022 - journals.uchicago.edu
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 …

This time it's different: the role of women's employment in a pandemic recession

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 …

The gendered impact of the COVID-19 recession on the US labor market

S Albanesi, J Kim - 2021 - nber.org
The economic crisis associated with the emergence of the novel corona virus is unlike
standard recessions. Demand for workers in high contact and inflexible service occupations …

Families in macroeconomics

M Doepke, M Tertilt - Handbook of macroeconomics, 2016 - Elsevier
Much of macroeconomics is concerned with the allocation of physical capital, human capital,
and labor over time and across people. The decisions on savings, education, and labor …

[HTML][HTML] LGBTQ and finance

S Brahma, K Gavriilidis, V Kallinterakis… - International Review of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Recent changes in workplace and corporate board diversity policies and a series of court
rulings have signalled a fundamental change in the treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual …

Consumption insurance against wage risk: Family labor supply and optimal progressive income taxation

C Wu, D Krueger - American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2021 - aeaweb.org
We show that a calibrated life cycle two-earner household model with endogenous labor
supply can rationalize the extent of consumption insurance against shocks to male and …

Husband's unemployment and wife's labor supply: the added worker effect across Europe

J Bredtmann, S Otten, C Rulff - Ilr Review, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
This article investigates the responsiveness of women's labor supply to their husband's job
loss—the so-called added worker effect. The authors contribute to the literature by taking an …

Does marriage protect mental health? Evidence from the COVID‐19 pandemic

CE Jace, CA Makridis - Social Science Quarterly, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Using weekly variation from April 23 to June 23 2020, we exploit the surge in unemployment
over the coronavirus pandemic to identify the effects on mental health outcomes and the role …

Income, consumption and wealth inequality in Spain

B Anghel, H Basso, O Bover, JM Casado, L Hospido… - SERIEs, 2018 - Springer
This paper analyses the level of inequality in Spain and how it evolved over the course of
the past crisis and the early stages of the current recovery. To this end, it first introduces the …

[PDF][PDF] Spousal insurance and the amplification of business cycles

B Bardóczy - Unpublished Manuscript, Northwestern University, 2020 - bencebardoczy.com
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 …