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Parental Leave Benefit and Differential Fertility Responses : Evidence from a German Reform

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2015

unanticipated reform of 2007 to assess how a move from a means-tested to an earnings-related benefit affects higher-order births. By …

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Earmarked paternity leave and well-being

Korsgren, Pontus; Lent, Max van - 2022

Earmarked paternity leave has been introduced in an attempt to increase fathers’ involvement in child rearing and to achieve gender equality in the labor market and at home. So far well-being effects of such policies are unexplored. This paper takes a first step in that direction by studying...

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Paid Parental Leave and Families' Living Arrangements

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2018

We examine how a paid parental leave reform causally affected families' living arrangements. The German reform we examine replaced a means-tested benefit with a universal transfer paid out for a shorter period. Combining a regression discontinuity with a difference-in-differences design, we find...

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The Impacts of Paid Family Leave Benefits : Regression Kink Evidence from California Administrative Data

Bana, Sarah - 2018

first state-level paid family leave program for women with earnings near the maximum benefit threshold. We find no evidence …

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Does paid family leave save infant lives? : evidence from United States

Chen, Feng - 2021

One goal of the paid family leave (PFL) is to help working mothers balance their careers and family responsibilities and hence improve the well-being of their infants. However, most studies of PFL on early childhood outcomes have been based on the analyses of surviving infants. If PFL reduces...

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Peer Effects and Parental Leave of Fathers

Tallås Ahlzen, Malin - 2021

This paper explores peer effects in parental leave uptake between male coworkers in Sweden. More specifically, I use the first parental leave quota, introduced in 1995, to estimate the peer effects in a fuzzy Regression discontinuity design. The results are allowed to differ with plant...

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Paid childcare leave, fertility, and female labor supply in South Korea

Kim, Kyeongkuk; Lee, Sang-hyop; Halliday, Timothy - 2022

We consider the effects of a paid childcare leave subsidy on maternal behavior in South Korea using a difference-in-difference design and a fertility survey with information on conception, contraception, and labor supply arrangements. Childcare subsidies increased conception and decreased...

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A Flying Start? Maternity Leave Benefits and Long Run Outcomes of Children

Carneiro, Pedro Manuel; Løken, Katrine Vellesen; … - 2021

We study the impact on children of increasing maternity leave benefits using a reform that increased paid and unpaid maternity leave in Norway in July 1977. Mothers giving birth before this date were eligible only for 12 weeks of unpaid leave, while those giving birth after were entitled to 4...

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The Employment of Mothers - Recent Developments and Their Determinants in East and West Germany

Broadway, Barbara; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2021

employment differences as East German women with low earnings potentials appear to adopt West German low employment patterns over …

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Can financial incentives reduce the baby gap? : evidence from a reform in maternity leave benefits

Raute, Anna - 2017

To assess whether earnings-dependent maternity leave positively impacts fertility and narrows the baby gap between high … earnings-dependent maternity leave benefits, which compensate women commensurate with their opportunity cost of childbearing …, could successfully reduce the fertility rate disparity related to mothers' education and earnings. …

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