Contrary to the expectation that only ratifying States comply with ILO Conventions, this article argues that even non-ratifying States improve their domestic standards consistent with ILO Conventions to enhance their legitimacy. Using a new historical database, I track changes in maternity leave...

Using Austrian and Danish administrative data, we examine the impacts of parenthood on mental health. Parenthood imposes a greater mental health burden on mothers than on fathers. It creates a long-run gender gap in antidepressant prescriptions of about 93.2% (Austria) and 64.8% (Denmark). These...

Mit dem aktuellen Haushaltsentwurf 2024 von Bundesfinanzminister Christian Lindner und den geplanten Kürzungen im Bereich Familie ist eine heftige Debatte darum entbrannt, welche familienpolitischen Maßnahmen sinnvoll sind, wie sie wirken und welche Alternativen es überhaupt gibt. Die gute...

Before the 2023 summer recess, family policy was, surprisingly, the centre of political debate. Guaranteed child allowance, the abolition of parental benefits for the highest earners, the abolition of income tax relief for married couples, and the pension for surviving dependents were up for...

Germany is characterised by large gender gaps in the labour market. Both the gender pay gap as well as the gender gap in working hours are among the highest in Europe. Family policy reforms such as increasing the parental leave period that is ear-marked for fathers as well as reducing the high...

The lives of families in Germany have changed fundamentally in recent decades. In particular, young women are increasingly share an equal division of tasks between men and women. This makes it necessary to have fitting institutional childcare facilities. However, at present there is still a lack...

We analyze the effects of the Child Tax Credit and the Child Care and Development Fund, two major family policies in the United States, in an overlapping-generations framework where altruistic parents invest in their child’s skill using parent time and purchased childcare. We incorporate...

This paper examines the impact of having only one child on parental risk behaviors in societies where children serve as a bedrock for elderly support. Employing regional and temporal variation from the enforcement of the One-Child Policy, our instrumental variable estimates show that the...