The OECD’s 2020 Risks that Matter survey presents cross-national evidence that when schools and childcare facilities shutdown, mothers took on the brunt of additional unpaid care work –and, correspondingly, they experienced labour market penalties and stress.
Despite schools being open in the autumn and summer terms during the 2020/21 academic year, children had not recovered from the learning they had missed during 2020 and 2021. There is still much to do to support their learning, with a particular focus on the groups...
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a dramatic increase in depression/anxiety problems and social risks among urban, racial and ethnic minority school-age children compared to before the pandemic.
There is concern about the efect of the COVID-19 pandemic on psychosocial functioning among school-age children, who have faced unusual stressors during this time. Our goal was to assess mental health symptoms and social risks during COVID-19, compared to before the...
Inequalities in all three components of labour market earnings – employment, working hours and hourly wages – have remained large. In 2019, working women still earned 19% less per hour than men.
The rapidly advancing frontiers of 21st-century biological sciences now provide compelling evidence that the foundations of lifelong health are also built early, with increasing evidence of the importance of the prenatal period and first few years after birth.