Journal
SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS
Volume 117, Issue 3, Pages 801-828Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/sjoe.12113
Keywords
Child development; labor supply; parental leave
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- Research Council of Norway through its Centres of Excellence [179552]
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Reserving a share of the parental leave period for fathers is considered necessary in order to induce fathers to take leave, and to increase men's participation in child-rearing. We investigate how a parental leave reform directed towards fathers affected leave-taking, and, in turn, children's and parents' long-term outcomes. A paternal leave quota greatly increases the share of men taking paternity leave. We find evidence that children's school performance improves as a result, particularly in families where the father has higher education than the mother. We find no evidence that paternity leave counters the traditional allocation of parents' labor supply.
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