months": 2 months of well-remunerated leave exclusively reserved for fathers. Against the backdrop of the reform, this study … examines how fathers' uptake of parental leave affects the amount of time they spend on paid work, housework, and childcare … whether fathers took the leave alone or at the same time as their partners. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel …

exploiting two parental leave reforms in Sweden. Using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design, we find that a decrease in the …

. Indeed, the last decades have seen an increase in fathers' take-up of parental leave benefits, but the gender earnings gap … 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 …