Research Conducted at Federal Reserve Board Has Provided New Information about CDC and FDA (Parental Employment In the Pandemic: Effects of Lockdowns With Employment Protection Policies): CDC and FDA

2026 AUG 11 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at CDC & FDA Daily -- Current study results on CDC and FDA have been published. According to news originating from Washington, District of Columbia, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “The COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affected mothers’ employment in New Zealand, despite a generous wage subsidy scheme that preserved jobs for those employed pre-pandemic. Using administrative tax records, we document a 1-2 percentage point decline in mothers’ likelihood of being employed following the lockdown, while fathers experienced no significant change.”

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Federal Reserve Board, “This gender gap was driven primarily by delayed workforce re-entry among non-employed mothers rather than job losses among employed mothers. Critically, we observe similar employment declines among future mothers-women without children during our study period-suggesting the pandemic’s differential impact extended beyond childcare demands.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “These patterns indicate that additional factors such as household bargaining dynamics and individual choices likely contributed to widening the employment gap between men and women during the pandemic.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Parental Employment In the Pandemic: Effects of Lockdowns With Employment Protection Policies. Oxford Economic Papers, 2026. Oxford Economic Papers can be contacted at: Oxford Univ Press, Great Clarendon St, Oxford OX2 6DP, England. (Oxford University Press - http://www.oup.com/; Oxford Economic Papers - oep.oxfordjournals.org)

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from Kabir Dasgupta, Federal Reserve Board, Consumer & Community Affairs, 1875 1STREET NW, Washington, DC 20006, United States. Additional authors for this research include Linda Kirkpatrick and Alexander Plum.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpag028. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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