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Understanding the impacts of paid maternity leave on women's labor market outcomes

Bates, Lilian; Hall, Oliver; Jakiela, Pamela - 2023

All OECD countries except the United States offer at least four months of paid maternity leave, and the average duration of mandated paid maternity leave has increased steadily from 1970 to the present. There is some evidence that paid leave policies above a certain duration negatively impact...

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The parenthood penalty in mental health : evidence from Austria and Denmark

Ahammer, Alexander; Glogowsky, Ulrich; Halla, Martin; … - 2023

Using Austrian and Danish administrative data, we examine the impacts of parenthood on mental health. Parenthood imposes a greater mental health burden on mothers than on fathers. It creates a long-run gender gap in antidepressant prescriptions of about 93.2% (Austria) and 64.8% (Denmark). These...

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Paternity leave and child outcomes

Avdic, Daniel; Karimi, Arizo; Sjögren, Anna; Sundberg, Elin - 2023

We study how fathers' time impacts children's human capital using the introduction of earmarked paternity leave in Sweden. We use administrative data on parents' leave uptake and children's educational outcomes in a difference-in-discontinuities design, exploiting the plausibly random timing of...

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Causal analysis of policy effects on fertility

Hart, Rannveig Kaldager; Bergsvik, Janna; Fauske, Agnes; … - 2023

This chapter reviews the literature on the causal effects of policies on fertility. It focuses on evidence from experiments and quasi-experiments in low fertility contexts, including studies from Europe, Northern America, Oceania and Asia. Making no a priori restrictions on policy type, the...

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Effects of extending paid parental leave on children's socio-emotional skills and well-being in adolescence

Houmark, Mikkel Aagaard; Jørgensen, Cecilie Marie Løchte - 2022

We study how children's socio-emotional skills and well-being in adolescence are affected by an increase in the duration of parental care during infancy. Exploiting a Danish reform that extended paid parental leave in 2002 and effectively delayed children's entry into formal out-of-home care, we...

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Measuring peer effects in parental leaves : evidence from a reform

Dottori, Davide; Modena, Francesca; Tanzi, Giulia Martina - 2023

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Where are the fathers? : the effects of earmarking parental leave on fathers in France

Périvier, Hélène; Verdugo, Gregory - 2023

Does providing nontransferable months of parental leave earmarked to fathers, as mandated by the European Union to its member countries since 2019, increase their participation? To answer that question, the authors investigate the consequences of a 2015 French reform that earmarked up to 12...

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The long-term impact of paid parental leave on maternal health and subjective well-being

Heisig, Katharina - 2023

This paper studies the long-term impact of a paid parental leave reform in former East Germany in 1986 on maternal physical and mental health and subjective well-being. The reform extended paid leave for first-time mothers by six months to a maximum of twelve months. I use representative survey...

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Parental leave : economic incentives and cultural change

Albrecht, James W.; Edin, Per-Anders; Fernández, Raquel; … - 2024

The distribution of parental leave uptake and childcare activities continues to conform to traditional gender roles. In 2002, with the goal of increasing gender equality, Sweden added a second "daddy month," i.e., an additional month of pay-related parental leave reserved exclusively for each...

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Warum Väter ihre Erwerbstätigkeit (nicht) unterbrechen: Mikroökonomische versus in der Persönlichkeit des Vaters begründete Determinanten der Inanspruchnahme von Elternzeit durch V...

Vogt, Ann-Cathrin; Pull, Kerstin - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 24 (2010) 1, pp. 48-68

In diesem Beitrag werden die Determinanten der Inanspruchnahme von Elternzeit durch Väter in Deutschland untersucht …. Zwar stieg der Anteil der Väter in Elternzeit seit der Elterngeldreform im Jahr 2007 kontinuierlich an, doch stellen Väter … immer noch die Minderheit der Elternzeit-Beansprucher. Im theoretischen Teil des Beitrags werden mikroökonomische und an der …

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