Search Results - subject:"Parental leave"

Causal Analysis of Policy Effects on Fertility

Hart, Rannveig Kaldager; Bergsvik, Janna; Fauske, Agnes; … - 2023

. Making no a priori restrictions on policy type, the review encompasses evaluations of parental leave, childcare, health … incentives had positive effects on fertility across contexts, both in the short and long run. Expansions of parental leave rights … in Central Europe, and introduction of parental leave in the U.S., also had positive effects. Distributional effects of …

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The Parenthood Penalty in Mental Health: Evidence from Austria and Denmark

Ahammer, Alexander; Glogowsky, Ulrich; Halla, Martin; … - 2023

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...

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The parenthood penalty in mental health: Evidence from Austria and Denmark

Ahammer, Alexander; Glogowsky, Ulrich; Halla, Martin; … - 2023

Using Austrian and Danish administrative data, we examine the impacts of parenthood on mental health equality. 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%...

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Sharing Parental Leave between Mothers and Fathers

Castaneda, Jorge Luis; Munoz Boudet, Ana Maria; … - 2023

Parental leave has been increasingly used as a family policy to facilitate balancing care and work responsibilities and … promoting gender equality. However, fathers' parental leave participation is still low, even when it offers both job and wage … messages on men's and women’s awareness and intentions of shared take-up of a parental leave program. The experiment provided …

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Who cares? : paid sick leave mandates, care-giving, and gender

Byker, Tanya; Patel, Elena; Ramnath, Shanthi - 2023

We use employment data from the Current Population Survey to assess the efficacy of state-mandated paid sick leave policies on leave-taking behavior with a focus on any variation by gender. We find that these policies increase leave taking for care-giving for men by 10-20%, and this effect is...

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Changing gender norms across generations : evidence from a paternity leave reform

Farré, Lídia; Felfe, Christina; González, Libertad; … - 2023

Social norms are an important barrier to gender convergence. We show that public policy designed to promote gender equality at home can pave the way towards gender convergence by shaping gender norms in the next generation. We combine the introduction of paternity leave in Spain with a...

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