COVID-19 School Closures Were Associated With A Decline In Employment For Female Nurses With Young Children.

ABSTRACT: COVID-19-related school closures may have had unintended consequences affecting the ability of health professionals with school-age children to work-particularly female professionals, who often have disproportionate child care responsibilities. We combined labor-force participation data from the Current Population Survey with measures of school closures based on cell phone mobility data to examine the association between local school closures and labor supply among female nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic. During the six months after large-scale closure of schools at the end of the 2019-20 school year (March-August 2020), among counties with above-median school closure rates, the employment rate of female nurses with young children declined by 12.5 percentage points versus the rate durin

SUBMITTER: Cantor J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12224026 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature