Abstract
We use COVID-19 as an experiment to study the effects of childcare and household duties on sell-side analysts. We find that female analysts' forecast accuracy declined more than male analysts, especially when schools were closed and among analysts who were more likely to have young children, inexperienced, busier, and lived in southern states. Relative to male analysts, females also reduced forecast timeliness and resorted to more heuristic forecasts but did not reduce coverage or updating frequency. Overall, our results show that the pandemic impacted female analysts more than males through the quality of their forecasts but not the quantity.
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