Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/263637 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15421
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We study how children's socio-emotional skills and well-being in adolescence are affected by an increase in the duration of parental care during infancy. Exploiting a Danish reform that extended paid parental leave in 2002 and effectively delayed children's entry into formal out-of-home care, we show that longer leave increases adolescent well-being, conscientiousness and emotional stability, and reduces school absenteeism. The effects are strongest for children of mothers who would have taken short leave in absence of the reform. This highlights how time spent with a parent is particularly productive during very early childhood.
Subjects: 
personality
socio-emotional skills
parental investments
skill formation
early childhood
parental leave
well-being
adolescence
JEL: 
J13
J18
J24
I31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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