Parental Employment Responses to COVID-19 School Disruptions in Korea

Korea-based replication data for a study on parental employment changes during COVID-19 school closures. The dataset was authored by 김, 대일 and is hosted by Harvard Dataverse. It was last updated on 2026-05-21.

Use Cases

• Modeling the causal effect of school closures on parental labor force participation based on the study's design.
• Analyzing gender differences in employment responses to caregiving shocks during the pandemic.
• Benchmarking policy interventions aimed at mitigating the economic impact of school disruptions on families.

Strengths

• Data is associated with a study accepted for publication in the Journal of Labor Economics, suggesting peer-reviewed scrutiny.
• Last update timestamp is precisely recorded as 2026-05-21 13:52:55.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Harvard Dataverse

Collection Method

Likely contains survey or administrative microdata used for replication of the associated academic study.

Time Range

Likely covers the period of COVID-19 school disruptions, but specific years are not stated.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-21 13:52:55; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Korea