“…Our study is not without limitations. Our focus on different-sex, dual-earner, married parents allows us to assess the impact of relative earnings, but we know that single mothers were particularly vulnerable to employment exits (Hertz et al, 2020;Landivar et al, 2023), declines in income (Kent, 2021), and increased poverty (Fins, 2020) during the pandemic. Thus, a comparison of the outcomes across these groups would be valuable, especially over time.…”