01The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic Recession on
Less Educated Women’s Human Capital: Some ProjectionsMark Drozd, Robert A. Moffitt, and Xinyu ZhaoAbstract：The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in major declines in
employment of women. We provide projections of impacts of this reduction on
less educated women’s future human capital framed within the traditional
Mincerian model. We find that wage losses one year out from 2020 are relatively
modest on average, generally less than 1%, with the largest for married women
without children in the home. But losses are greater for young married women,
mothers with very young children, and those working in COVID-impacted
industries. School and childcare closures increase negative wage impacts for
married mothers by an additional 50%.02What Firms Do: Gender Inequality in Linked
Employer-Employee DataAlessandra Casarico and Salvatore LattanzioAbstract：We
study the extent to which employer heterogeneity affects gender gaps in
earnings across the
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