Causal Effects of Parental Leave on Adolescents' Household Work

Kotsadam, Andreas; Finseraas, Henning

doi:10.1093/sf/sot044

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“…Rather, it appears more plausible that it results from fathers participating more actively in child‐rearing when the child grows older (e.g., through increased involvement in school work). This interpretation is consistent with the survey evidence of Kotsadam and Finseraas (, ), showing long‐lasting effects of the 1993 parental leave reform on the division of household work within the family.…”

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“…() find no evidence that paternity leave affects the extent to which fathers care for children when they are sick. Using Norwegian survey data, Kotsadam and Finseraas (, ) find long‐lasting effects of paternity leave on the division of household work within the family. Rege and Solli () find a negative impact of paternity leave on fathers' earnings in Norway using a difference‐in‐difference strategy on a sample of fathers with children in different age groups before and after the reform.…”

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Causal Effects of Paternity Leave on Children and Parents

Cools

Fiva

Kirkebøen

2015

Scandinavian J Economics

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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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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Causal Effects of Paternity Leave on Children and Parents

Cools

Fiva

Kirkebøen

2015

Scandinavian J Economics

181

196

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“…It is, however, unlikely that more explicitly accounting for men would have changed the outcomes of our analyses, as the uptake of, for instance, childcare leave is very low among men (Gornick & Meyers, 2003;Kotsadam & Finseraas, 2013;Lappegard, 2012). Of course, this low uptake of leave among fathers suggests that future studies could…”

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Family policy outcomes: Combining Institutional and Demographic Explanations of Women’s Employment and Earnings Inequality in OECD Countries, 1975-2005

Nieuwenhuis¹

2016

Preprint

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Women’s employment and earnings, as well as earnings inequality, have been rising in OECD countries in recent decades. This dissertation answers questions pertaining to how family policies have facilitated women in combining motherhood and employment, and how women’s earnings have affected inequality among households. Based on well over a million person-level observations, this study covers 18 OECD countries and a period from 1975 to 2005.Work-family reconciliation policies were shown to reduce the employment gap between mothers and women without children, while policies financially supporting families with children enlarge this motherhood-employment gap. Very long periods of leave, however, negatively affect the employment of mothers. More educated mothers benefit more from reconciliation policies than the less educated. Women’s rising earnings were found to have attenuated inequality among households. Family policy arrangements that facilitate women’s employment not only contribute to smaller inequality within households, but also among households.

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“…Some attempts to estimate socialization effects are based on adult couples' actual housework allocation, and how this matches their retrospective description of their parents' division of housework (Koopman‐Boyden & Abbott, ), with all the shortcomings that this involves. Applying an alternative strategy, Kotsadam and Finseraas () observed that the father quota in Norway's parental leave reform (of 1993) had an impact on adolescents' household work. Their difference‐in‐differences estimations showed that girls born right after the reform were less likely to do housework than those born just before the reform, whereas no effect was observed for boys.…”

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Roles: Children's Contribution to Housework in Germany

Cordero‐Coma

Esping‐Andersen

2018

J of Marriage and Family

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Research on children's participation in housework is scarce and mainly descriptive. Drawing on theories of gender role socialization, the authors identify how children's contributions are influenced by how their parents allocate domestic tasks. Using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel, which include annual information on time dedicated to housework for all family members, they analyze a sample of 2,293 sons and daughters born 1976 to 1995 who live with their parents at ages 18 and 19 and whose parents reported their own time spent on housework when the children were aged 8 to 11 years. The authors find that parents' housework division when children were ages 8 to 11 affects the likelihood of sons (and less so, daughters) participating in such tasks, even after controlling for parental education, the mother's work attachment, time constraints, and parents' division of housework in adolescence. Analysis of siblings provides additional support for our hypothesis.

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Causal Effects of Parental Leave on Adolescents' Household Work

Cited by 26 publications

References 36 publications

Causal Effects of Paternity Leave on Children and Parents

Causal Effects of Paternity Leave on Children and Parents

Family policy outcomes: Combining Institutional and Demographic Explanations of Women’s Employment and Earnings Inequality in OECD Countries, 1975-2005

The Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Roles: Children's Contribution to Housework in Germany

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