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Many OECD countries have implemented policies to induce couples to share parental leave. This paper investigates how responsive intra-household leave-sharing is to changes in economic incentives. To investigate this fundamental question, we are forced to look at one of the Nordic countries which...
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Women account for the majority of parental leave take-up, which is likely one of the major reasons for the gender gap in income and wages. Consequently, many countries exert effort to promote a more gender equal division of parental leave. Indeed, the last decades have seen an increase in...
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In this paper we use a parental leave reform directed towards fathers to identify the causal effects of paternity leave … on children's and parents' outcomes. We document that paternity leave causes fathers to become more important for … than the mother. We find no evidence that fathers' earnings and work hours are affected by paternity leave. Contrary to …
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