, completed fertility and mid-career earnings. We find an overall increasing inequality in career and family outcomes of men …

their opportunity cost of childbearing, could successfully reduce the fertility rate disparity related to mothers' education …In this paper, I assess whether earnings-dependent maternity leave positively impacts fertility and narrows the baby … a differences-in-differences design, I estimate the causal impact of the reform on fertility for up to 5 years. In …

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

become mothers, they do not. Our fixed effects panel estimates of the effects of family factors deviate from the cross …

's quotas are becoming widely spread across Europe. This paper provides arguments for why it may be welfare improving for both … should be provided in order to prevent mothers from taking too large share of the family's leave time. …

in income and wages. Consequently, many countries exert effort to promote a more gender equal division of parental leave … 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 …

parent's future earnings. Also spousal leave is important, but only for mothers. In fact, each month the father stays on …

formation and potentially affecting marriage and fertility outcomes. I study the implications of the female advantage in …-form relationship between marriage market exposure to the reform and marriage and fertility outcomes. The results show that in marriage …

. Parenthood imposes a greater mental health burden on mothers than on fathers. It creates a long-run gender gap in antidepressant …. Supporting this interpretation, matched adoptive mothers (who do not experience the biological impacts of childbirth) also … encounter substantial parenthood penalties. Moreover, mothers who invest more in childcare (by taking extended maternity leave …