after childbirth, but this effect diminished after 4 years. The findings suggest that the distributional effect should be …

generous parental benefit that allows for strong consumption smoothing after childbirth and, by taking into account opportunity … regression discontinuity design, we estimate policy impacts for up to 5 years after childbirth and find significant and striking … increases in working hours. Second, the probability of job continuity rises significantly, i.e. mothers return to their pre-childbirth …