Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/333633 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 18194
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
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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