Domestic Equality and Marital Stability Does Paternity Leave affect Divorce Risk?∗
Preliminary draft- please do not cite In 2001, a new reform was adopted in Iceland, guaranteeing fathers three months paternity leave, implemented in stages. Parents who had a child in 2001 were given the option to add one month of paternity leave to the existing 6 month long parental leave which th...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.569.9053 2023-05-15T16:50:12+02:00 Domestic Equality and Marital Stability Does Paternity Leave affect Divorce Risk?∗ Herdis Steingrimsdottir Arna Vardardottir The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives 2014 application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.569.9053 http://www.iza.org/conference_files/EVAL2014/vardardottier_a7647.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.569.9053 http://www.iza.org/conference_files/EVAL2014/vardardottier_a7647.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.iza.org/conference_files/EVAL2014/vardardottier_a7647.pdf text 2014 ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T12:26:23Z Preliminary draft- please do not cite In 2001, a new reform was adopted in Iceland, guaranteeing fathers three months paternity leave, implemented in stages. Parents who had a child in 2001 were given the option to add one month of paternity leave to the existing 6 month long parental leave which they had forgone if not used by the father while parents who had a child before were were not able to do this. This created large economic incentives for parents to involve fathers in caring for their children during their first months. In this paper we use the precise timing of the introduction of the paternal quota to evaluate the causal effects of paternity leave on marital stability. The results are obtained using detailed register based panel data, comparing families who had a child just before or just after the reform. Spouses who are entitled to paternity leave are less likely to divorce during the first years of the child’s life, the period where most divorces take place. Furthermore, we also find that the reform reduced the earnings gap between couples. Text Iceland Unknown |
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Preliminary draft- please do not cite In 2001, a new reform was adopted in Iceland, guaranteeing fathers three months paternity leave, implemented in stages. Parents who had a child in 2001 were given the option to add one month of paternity leave to the existing 6 month long parental leave which they had forgone if not used by the father while parents who had a child before were were not able to do this. This created large economic incentives for parents to involve fathers in caring for their children during their first months. In this paper we use the precise timing of the introduction of the paternal quota to evaluate the causal effects of paternity leave on marital stability. The results are obtained using detailed register based panel data, comparing families who had a child just before or just after the reform. Spouses who are entitled to paternity leave are less likely to divorce during the first years of the child’s life, the period where most divorces take place. Furthermore, we also find that the reform reduced the earnings gap between couples. |
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