Effects of Parental Leave and Work Hours on Fathers’ Involvement With Their Babies

Tanaka, Sakiko; Waldfogel, Jane

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“…Paternity leave might affect a father's long-term involvement through at least two different mechanisms (Tanaka and Waldfogel 2007). First, a father's care for his infant may facilitate father-child bonding.…”

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The Impact of Paternity Leave on Fathers’ Future Earnings

2013

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Using Norwegian registry data, we investigate the effect of paternity leave on fathers' long-term earnings. If the paternity leave increased long-term father involvement, then we should expect a reduction in fathers' long-term earnings as they shift time and effort from market to home production. For identification, we use the Norwegian introduction of a paternity-leave quota in 1993, reserving four weeks of the total of 42 weeks of paid parental leave exclusively for the father. The introduction of the paternity-leave quota led to a sharp increase in rates of leavetaking for fathers. We estimate a difference-in-differences model that exploits differences in fathers' exposure to the paternity-leave quota by the child's age and year of observation. Our analysis suggests that four weeks of paternity leave during the child's first year decreases fathers' future earnings, an effect that persists through our last point of observation, when the child is 5 years old. A battery of robustness tests supports our results.

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The Impact of Paternity Leave on Fathers’ Future Earnings

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“…By documenting differences between first and second birth transitions, we add an important dimension to the growing number of studies from different countries (Nepomnyaschy and Waldfogel 2007, Tanaka and Waldfogel 2007, Haas and Hwang 2008, Hosking et al 2010, Wrohlich et al 2012, Rehel 2014, Ekberg et al 2013) which provide mixed evidence as to whether fathers' leave taking results in a more equal division of child care…”

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“…Studies from Sweden, Canada, and the US (Haas and Hwang 2008, Nepomnyaschy and Waldfogel 2007, Rehel 2014 found that fathers who took longer leave participated more in child care. Having taken any leave was also positively related to paternal child care involvement in the US and the UK (Tanaka andWaldfogel 2007, Pleck 1993), whereas associations with weekday and sole child care proved weak in Australia (Hosking et al 2010) and not significant in Germany (Wrohlich et al 2012, Schober 2014. These studies were mostly based on child care information collected at one point after the father had taken leave with retrospective questions on paternal leave taking.…”

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“…Several countries also implemented or extended fathers' parental leave rights to encourage longer-term paternal child care involvement and to speed up maternal labour market return. Previous studies from the US, Australia, the UK, Canada, Germany, Norway and Sweden provide mixed results as to whether fathers who took some leave spent more time with their children after returning to the labour market (Nepomnyaschy and Waldfogel 2007, Tanaka and Waldfogel 2007, Haas and Hwang 2008, Hosking et al 2010, Wrohlich et al 2012, Rehel 2014, Ekberg et al 2013, Kotsadam and Finseraas 2011. We contribute to the literature by exploring more in detail three potential explanations for how the durations of maternal and paternal leave take-up following childbirth relate to medium-term changes in housework and child care time in German couples.…”

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Change in the Gender Division of Domestic Work after Mummy or Daddy Took Leave: An Examination of Alternative Explanations

Schober

Zoch

2015

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“…Scholars fi nd that fathers' leave uptake-from 2 weeks or more-has positive effects on their subsequent involvement in childcare (for Sweden, see Haas and Hwang 2008 ; for a comparison of four OECD countries, see Huerta et al 2013 ; for the US, see Nepomnyaschy and Waldfogel 2007 ;Pleck 1993 ; for the UK, see Tanaka and Waldfogel 2007 ). The existence and use of such leaves at the institutional level therefore decreases the gendered division of childcare work at the interactional level.…”

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Fathers on Leave Alone in Switzerland: Agents of Social Change?

Valarino

2016

Comparative Perspectives on Work-Life Balance and Gender Equality

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Effects of Parental Leave and Work Hours on Fathers’ Involvement With Their Babies

Cited by 173 publications

References 16 publications

The Impact of Paternity Leave on Fathers’ Future Earnings

The Impact of Paternity Leave on Fathers’ Future Earnings

Change in the Gender Division of Domestic Work after Mummy or Daddy Took Leave: An Examination of Alternative Explanations

Fathers on Leave Alone in Switzerland: Agents of Social Change?

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