Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study and show that teleworking had a negative average effect on life satisfaction over the … asymmetry: lower life satisfaction is only found for unmarried men and women with school-age children. The negative effect for …

Increasing fathers' involvement in childcare is seen as an important strategy to reduce women's child penalties in the … domestic work. This paper examines the impact of the combined availability of universal childcare and paternity leave on … fathers' involvement. We exploit quasi-experimental variation in the regional availability of childcare for children under …

increased paternal involvement in childcare. …

satisfaction, and work-life balance using several policy changes in Europe over the period 1993-2007. We find that earmarked … takes a first step in that direction by studying the impact of earmarked paternity leave quota on life satisfaction, job … paternity leave increases life satisfaction by 0.18 on a 10 point scale which is equivalent to a 10.8 percentage point increase …

investments in childcare: Mothers who take extended maternity leave in quasi-experimental settings are more likely to face mental …

Recent studies have found that self-reported life satisfaction drops during the transition into parenthood which has … alleviate this drop in parental life satisfaction during this period. A fixed-effects analysis in an event study framework using … part-time jobs (0-20 hours per week) exhibit greater life satisfaction than mothers who work full-time, especially when …