differences in the employment behavior of East and West German mothers. German family policy sets incentives particularly for low …

This paper investigates how mothers’ decision to stay at home with young children affects their subsequent work careers …

data on West Germany are used and we exploit the expansionary family policy during the late 1980s and 1990s for … family gap. …

on children’s and parents’ outcomes. We document that paternity leave causes fathers to become more important for … children’s cognitive skills. School performance at age 16 increases for children whose father is relatively higher educated … paternity leave shifts the gender balance at home in a way that increases mothers’ time and/or effort spent at market work. …