reconstruct their parental leave systems so to provide stronger incentives for fathers to participate in childcare. Father … parents to increase the father's share of the family's parental leave time. However, regulations in terms of father's quotas … should be provided in order to prevent mothers from taking too large share of the family's leave time. …

has remained fairly constant. In this paper we re-evaluate the labour supply responses of both mothers and fathers to … reflect actual time off from work in a system where job-protection exceeds paid leave. We find that both mothers and fathers …. Indeed, the last decades have seen an increase in fathers' take-up of parental leave benefits, but the gender earnings gap …

at aiding families. The outcomes of interest are female employment, gender gaps in earnings and fertility. We begin with …

provided by mothers (or formal institutions) is superior to informal care-arrangements. …

births did not exceed 24 months. The rule had a much larger effect on the birth spacing behavior for native-born mothers … compared to foreign-born mothers due to their differential attachment to the labor market. We find that the rule caused a … reduction in spacing among native-born mothers as compared to the foreign-born mothers. For individuals born by native …

. This paper studies how mothers' return to work behavior and labor market outcomes are affected by alternative mixes of … mothers' labor market outcomes in the medium run, neither of benefit duration nor of job-protection duration. To understand … the relative importance (and interaction) of the two policy instruments in shaping mothers' return to work behavior, we …

-educated mothers, a result that is robust to a number of different specifications. We find no corresponding heterogeneity relative to … parental earnings or fathers' education, or relative to other predictors of child perforÿ­mance. We find no effects on … intermediate outcomes such as mothers' subsequent earnÿ­ings, child health, parental fertility, divorce rates, or the mothers …

This paper evaluates how access to paid parental leave affects labor market entrance for immigrating mothers with small … generous it may create incentives to stay out of the labor force. This incentive effect may be especially true for mothers … immigrating to a country where having small children automatically makes the mothers eligible for the benefit. To evaluate the …

We study the intergenerational transmission of cognitive and non-cognitive abilities between parents and sons using … correct for measurement error bias in fathers' ability measures by using their brothers' abilities as instruments. The uncle … instrument is supported by a host of validity tests. This strategy also enables us to predict mothers' abilities. Our results …