Parental leave-- a policy evaluation of the Swedish "Daddy-Month" Reform
By: by John Ekberg, Rickard Eriksson, Guido Friebel.
Contributors: Eriksson, Rickard.; Friebel, Guido.
Series: Discussion paper ;; no. 1617; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) ;; no. 1617
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Parental leave.
Description: "Many countries are trying to incentivize fathers to increase their share in parental leave and in household work to improve female labor market opportunities. Our unique data set stems from a natural experiment in Sweden. The data comprises all children born before (control group) and after the reform (treatment group) in cohorts of up to 27,000 newborns, mothers and fathers. We find strong short term effects of incentives on male parental leave. However, we find no learning-by doing, or specialization, effects: fathers in the treatment group do not have larger shares in the leave taken for care of sick children, which is our measure for household work"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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