three European countries which experience severe poverty traps, namely Finland, France and Germany. The potential labor …

consequences of family support policy and stress the need for well-defined policy goals and careful analysis ahead of any reform. …

career, especially for women. The recent German Elterngeld reform is one example: By replacing 67 per cent of prepartum … reform by using a natural experiment created by the quick legislative process of the Elterngeld reform: Comparing outcomes of … estimates of the reform effects, because at the time when these children were conceived none of the parents knew that the …

program in Germany. In 2007, a means-tested parental leave transfer program that had paid benefits for up to two years was … replaced by an earnings related transfer which paid benefits for up to one year. The reform generated winners and losers with … heterogeneous response incentives. We find that the reform speeds up the labor market return of both groups of mothers after benefit …

on within-father differences in leave-taking for first and higher order children that were triggered by a policy reform …

months after childbirth. The first reform added considerably shorter leave options; the second reform introduced income … percent relative to pre-reform means. Despite these increases, the share of leave taken by fathers relative to mothers …

public policies affect the involvement of fathers. In this paper, we exploit a reform of the German parental leave system … short-run reform incentives during the first period after birth nudge unmarried fathers into the long-term commitment of …

birth-related employment interruptions. The reform yields most of the intended effects. -- Female labor supply ; fertility …