Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/210967 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 899
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
Long paternity leaves have the potential for lasting effects on parental unions, potentially reducing specialization and increasing union stability and fertility. We put these hypotheses to a causal test, using an extension of the Norwegian parental leave father's quota from 6 to 10 weeks as a source of exogenous variation in fathers' leave uptake. We implement a Regression Discontinuity design, using full population data from Norwegian administrative registers of parents of children in a four-month window around the reform (N = 9 757). The reform significantly increased the amount of leave taken by fathers by about three weeks and reduced the amount of leave taken by mothers. Neither union stability, fertility nor his or her subsequent earnings were affected by the reform.
Subjects: 
Union dissolution
father involvement
quasi experiment
JEL: 
J12
J13
J16
J18
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.