Reserving Time for Daddy: The Consequences of Fathers’ Quotas
By Ankita Patnaik. Journal of Labor Economics, 2019
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“Daddy quotas” that reserve some parental leave for fathers are increasingly common in developed nations, but it is unclear whether fathers respond to the binding constraints or the labeling effects they produce. Furthermore, little is known about their long-term effects on household behavior. I examine the Quebec Parental Insurance Plan, which improved compensation and reserved 5 weeks of leave for fathers. I find that fathers’ participation increased by 250%, driven by higher benefits and the framing effect of labeling some weeks as “daddy only.” I also present causal evidence that paternity leave reduces sex specialization long after the leave period.
Subfields: Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Baby steps: the gender division of childcare during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020, background): “However, Farré and González (2019), Patnaik (2019), and Tamm (2019) show that paternity leave leads to a persistent increase in fathers’ involvement in childcare in the cases of Spain, Canada, and Germany, respectively.”
- Children and the Remaining Gender Gaps in the Labor Market (2020, unknown): “In particular, Patnaik (2019) finds that the introduction of the Quebec Parental Insurance Program (QPIP) in 2006 that reserved 5 weeks of leave for fathers reduced the gendered division of labor within couples several years after the end of the leave period.”