Navigating educational disruptions: the gender divide in parental involvement and children’s learning outcomes

This study analyzes the adjustment in time allocation to school support activities by mothers and fathers during the pandemic across 22 Latin American and Caribbean countries, exploring the repercussions on labor market outcomes and children’s learning losses. Our analysis reveals that mothers exper...

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Autores principales: Ciaschi, Matías Omar, Fajardo-Gonzalez, Johanna, Viollaz, Mariana
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spelling I19-R120-10915-1677512024-07-04T20:09:05Z http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/167751 Navigating educational disruptions: the gender divide in parental involvement and children’s learning outcomes Ciaschi, Matías Omar Fajardo-Gonzalez, Johanna Viollaz, Mariana 2024-06 2024-07-04T12:51:32Z en Ciencias Económicas Time Use Childcare Labor Pandemic Latin America This study analyzes the adjustment in time allocation to school support activities by mothers and fathers during the pandemic across 22 Latin American and Caribbean countries, exploring the repercussions on labor market outcomes and children’s learning losses. Our analysis reveals that mothers experienced a disproportionate increase in time dedicated to children’s educational support compared to fathers, particularly when mothers could work from home. The results suggest that these effects were more pronounced in countries with stringent school closure measures and limited access to in-person instruction. Even as mobility restrictions eased and schools reopened, the additional responsibilities taken on by mothers remained above pre-pandemic levels. Mothers also significantly increased the time spent on non-educational childcare, though to a lesser extent than educational support. We also show evidence indicating a decline in maternal labor force participation and a rise in flexible labor arrangements as mothers allocated more hours to child-related duties. Our study also provides descriptive evidence that children’s learning losses were less severe in countries where the gender disparity in pandemicrelated school support was greater. Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales Articulo Documento de trabajo http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) application/pdf
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Time Use
Childcare
Labor
Pandemic
Latin America
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Time Use
Childcare
Labor
Pandemic
Latin America
Ciaschi, Matías Omar
Fajardo-Gonzalez, Johanna
Viollaz, Mariana
Navigating educational disruptions: the gender divide in parental involvement and children’s learning outcomes
topic_facet Ciencias Económicas
Time Use
Childcare
Labor
Pandemic
Latin America
description This study analyzes the adjustment in time allocation to school support activities by mothers and fathers during the pandemic across 22 Latin American and Caribbean countries, exploring the repercussions on labor market outcomes and children’s learning losses. Our analysis reveals that mothers experienced a disproportionate increase in time dedicated to children’s educational support compared to fathers, particularly when mothers could work from home. The results suggest that these effects were more pronounced in countries with stringent school closure measures and limited access to in-person instruction. Even as mobility restrictions eased and schools reopened, the additional responsibilities taken on by mothers remained above pre-pandemic levels. Mothers also significantly increased the time spent on non-educational childcare, though to a lesser extent than educational support. We also show evidence indicating a decline in maternal labor force participation and a rise in flexible labor arrangements as mothers allocated more hours to child-related duties. Our study also provides descriptive evidence that children’s learning losses were less severe in countries where the gender disparity in pandemicrelated school support was greater.
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