Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/331503 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
CEBI Working Paper Series No. 12/25
Publisher: 
University of Copenhagen, Department of Economics, Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI), Copenhagen
Abstract: 
We examine the impact of a 2002 Danish parental leave reform on intimate partner violence (IPV) using administrative data on assault-related hospital contacts. Using a regression discontinuity design, we show that extending fully paid leave increased mothers' leave-taking and substantially reduced IPV, with effects concentrated among less-educated women. The reform also lengthened birth spacing, while separations remained unchanged and earnings effects were modest. The timing and heterogeneity of impacts point to fertility adjustments-rather than exit options or financial relief-as the key mechanism. Parental leave policy thus emerges as an underexplored lever for reducing IPV.
Subjects: 
Intimate partner violence
parental leave
JEL: 
J12
I38
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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