Causal Effects of Paternity Leave on Children and Parents
By Sara Cools, Jon H. Fiva, L. Kirkebøen. Social Science Research Network, 2015
239 citations recorded by the source corpus.
In this paper we use a parental leave reform directed towards fathers to identify the causal effects of paternity leave on children’s and parents’ outcomes. We document that paternity leave causes fathers to become more important for children’s cognitive skills. School performance at age 16 increases for children whose father is relatively higher educated than the mother. We find no evidence that fathers’ earnings and work hours are affected by paternity leave. Contrary to expectation, mothers’ labor market outcomes are adversely affected by paternity leave. Our findings do therefore not suggest that paternity leave shifts the gender balance at home in a way that increases mothers’ time and/or effort spent at market work.
Subfields: Demography, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/0a5ab00f7bf28fbcf1db93f72df68cece8537d79
Citations in the corpus
- Reserving Time for Daddy: The Consequences of Fathers’ Quotas (2019, unknown): “While some studies report that paternity leave reduces fathers’ earnings (Johansson, 2010; Rege and Solli, 2013), others find no impact on fathers’ earnings or work hours (Cools et al., 2015).”
- Peer Effects in Program Participation (2014, unknown): “8Our description builds on Rege and Solli (2010) and Cools et al. (2011). 9At the same time as the four-week paternity quota was implemented, the leave amount that could be shared between parents was extended by three weeks.”
- The Global Demography of Aging: Facts, Explanations, Future (2016, unknown): “, 2008), but does not change the traditional household division of labor (Cools et al., 2015).”
- Maternity and Family Leave Policy (2017, unknown): “…and fathers’ labor market outcomes, see: Tanaka and Waldfogel (2007); Nepomnyaschy and Waldfogel (2007); Rege and Solli (2013); Huerta et al. (2013); Dahl et al. (2014); Almqvist and Duvander (2014); Cools et al. (2015); Bartel et al. (2015); Bünning (2015); Bunning and Pollmann-Schult (2016).”