Add to ORKGMany countries are trying to incentivize fathers to increase their share in parental leave and in household work to improve female la-bor 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
How a couple shares parental leave following the birth of a child has important implications for tim...
Since the introduction of the Swedish parental leave reform in 1974, fathers have had the same right...
Infant care is no longer purely a private family matter. As more mothers return to paid employment i...
Many countries are trying to improve female labor market oppor-tunities through family benefit polic...
In 2002 the number of months reserved for fathers in the Swedish parental leave system increased fro...
Abstract It has been argued that a generous family policy aimed at a gender-equal division of childc...
Sweden is often considered a forerunner in family change and developments towardsless gendered famil...
Abstract: Fathers ’ parental leave use is often assumed to affect gender equality both at home and i...
Fathers parental leave use is often assumed to affect gender equality both at home and in the labour...
This study addresses the question of economic and workplace related determinants and consequences of...
Despite multiple reforms aimed at encouraging fathers to take parental leave, a significant portion ...
This paper reviews the the literature on fathers' use of parental leave. Parental leave is a work-li...
Parental Leave Quotas: Peer Effects and Workplace Related Costs In this paper, I estimate whether th...
Despite the expansion of well-paid paternal leave in Finland, fathers take on average far less leave...
Despite the expansion of well-paid paternal leave in Finland, fathers take on average far less leave...
How a couple shares parental leave following the birth of a child has important implications for tim...
Since the introduction of the Swedish parental leave reform in 1974, fathers have had the same right...
Infant care is no longer purely a private family matter. As more mothers return to paid employment i...
Many countries are trying to improve female labor market oppor-tunities through family benefit polic...
In 2002 the number of months reserved for fathers in the Swedish parental leave system increased fro...
Abstract It has been argued that a generous family policy aimed at a gender-equal division of childc...
Sweden is often considered a forerunner in family change and developments towardsless gendered famil...
Abstract: Fathers ’ parental leave use is often assumed to affect gender equality both at home and i...
Fathers parental leave use is often assumed to affect gender equality both at home and in the labour...
This study addresses the question of economic and workplace related determinants and consequences of...
Despite multiple reforms aimed at encouraging fathers to take parental leave, a significant portion ...
This paper reviews the the literature on fathers' use of parental leave. Parental leave is a work-li...
Parental Leave Quotas: Peer Effects and Workplace Related Costs In this paper, I estimate whether th...
Despite the expansion of well-paid paternal leave in Finland, fathers take on average far less leave...
Despite the expansion of well-paid paternal leave in Finland, fathers take on average far less leave...
How a couple shares parental leave following the birth of a child has important implications for tim...
Since the introduction of the Swedish parental leave reform in 1974, fathers have had the same right...
Infant care is no longer purely a private family matter. As more mothers return to paid employment i...