Online First The Economic Journal Online 2 Apr 2026Balancing Work and Care: How Workplace Factors Can Mitigate the Gendered Impacts of CaregivingPeyman Firouzi Naeim · David W Johnston · Maryam Naghsh-NejadThis paper examines how workplace environments shape the economic consequences that fall on mothers — but not fathers — when a child is diagnosed with cancer. The motivation is a gap in the …