Working from Home During Covid-19 Pandemic and Changes to Fertility Intentions Among Parents
Level 4 - case-series / case-control
Level 4 by design analogy (cross-sectional survey analysis in non-clinical demography)
OpenAlex W4387692241 · doi:10.1007/s10680-023-09678-z
What was done
Using data from the Familydemic Survey of a representative sample of parents in Poland during the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers evaluated the association between working from home and changes in fertility intentions for mothers and fathers. They performed gender-stratified multinomial logit regressions controlling for and moderating by financial well-being, occupational characteristics, and pre-pandemic gendered division of unpaid labor.
What was found
The authors reported an overall negative relationship between home-based work and fertility intentions for mothers, along with moderating effects from the pre-pandemic division of unpaid domestic labor. The abstract reports no numerical values, effect sizes, or test statistics.
Why it matters
It demonstrates that remote work during acute crisis conditions can intensify work-family conflict rather than facilitate childbearing, particularly when domestic labor is unequally distributed.
Limits
The abstract reports no sample size or numerical values. The findings rely on observational, cross-sectional survey data from a single country during pandemic-related school and childcare closures, limiting generalizability to routine non-crisis remote work and precluding causal inference.
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