The effects of paternity leave on fertility and labor market outcomes

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• dc.contributor.author González Luna, Libertadca
• dc.contributor.author Farré, Lídiaca
• dc.contributor.other Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa
• dc.date.accessioned 2018-02-14T15:30:01Z
• dc.date.available 2018-02-14T15:30:01Z
• dc.date.issued 2017-06-01
• dc.date.modified 2017-07-23T02:18:19Z
• dc.description.abstract This paper studies the effects of a father quota in the parental leave period on households' labor market and fertility decisions. Identification is based on the 2007 reform of the Spanish family benefit system, which extended the sixteen weeks of paid parental leave by two additional weeks exclusively reserved for fathers and nontransferable to mothers. Using a regression discontinuity design, we show that the reform substantially increased the take-up rate of fathers (by as much as 400%), as well as the re-employment probability of mothers shortly after childbirth (by about 11%). However, it did not affect parents' longer-term leave-taking or employment behavior. We also find that the introduction of the two weeks of paternity leave delayed higherorder births and reduced subsequent fertility among older women (by about 15%). These results suggest a limited scope for the father quota to alter household behaviors beyond the parental leave period and reduce gender inequality at the workplace.
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• dc.identifier https://econ-papers.upf.edu/ca/paper.php?id=1572
• dc.identifier.citation
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/33887
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.relation.ispartofseries Economics and Business Working Papers Series; 1572
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• dc.subject.keyword natural experiment
• dc.subject.keyword paternity leave
• dc.subject.keyword fertility
• dc.subject.keyword labor market and gender.
• dc.subject.keyword Labour, Public, Development and Health Economics
• dc.title The effects of paternity leave on fertility and labor market outcomesca
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