the fact that only mothers whose child is born in or after July 2015 are eligible for the new part-time PL option in a … Difference-in-Differences strategy. We find that the policy increased the probability that high income mothers return to work …

program in Germany. In 2007, a means-tested parental leave transfer program that had paid benefits for up to two years was … heterogeneous response incentives. We find that the reform speeds up the labor market return of both groups of mothers after benefit … effect are changes in social norms and mothers' preferences for economic independence. …

policies; and, at the micro level, whether the probability of returning to work and career prospects have increased for mothers …

leave policies. We analyze the impact of a major parental leave reform on mothers’ long-term earnings. The 2007 German … policy on long-run earnings of mothers, we use a difference-in-difference approach that compares labor market outcomes of … mothers who gave birth just before and right after the reform and nets out seasonal effects by including the year before …

mothers' and fathers' labor supply. Fathers' leave-taking is highly selective and the identification of causal effects relies …

program in Germany. In 2007, a means-tested parental leave transfer program, which had paid benefits for up to two years, was … heterogeneous response incentives. We find that the reform sped up the labor market return of all mothers after benefit expiration …. Likely pathways for this substantial reform effect are changes in social norms and mothers' preferences for economic …

program in Germany. In 2007, a means-tested parental leave transfer program that had paid benefits for up to two years was … heterogeneous response incentives. We find that the reform speeds up the labor market return of both groups of mothers after benefit … effect are changes in social norms and mothers' preferences for economic independence. …