Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/258902 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
CEBI Working Paper Series No. 02/19
Publisher: 
University of Copenhagen, Department of Economics, Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI), Copenhagen
Abstract: 
We study the causal link between earmarked paternity leave policies and the relative income share of women within couples. We utilize high quality administrative longitudinal register data for the universe of Danish individuals with a reform in 1998, which increased the earmarked paternity leave of fathers from two to four weeks. We estimate that the reform increased the women's intra-household share of labor income with around 1.2 percentage points in the years following childbirth. We estimate a significant increase up to seven years after childbirth. We furthermore find that the effect is primarily driven by women employed in the private sector.
Subjects: 
Income Share
Parental Leave
Earmarked Leave
Household Bargaining
JEL: 
D63
H24
H31
J13
J16
J24
J78
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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