TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Fontenay, Sébastien
AU  - Tojerow, Ilan
        TI  - Work Disability after Motherhood and How Paternity Leave Can Help
        PY  - 2020/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 13756
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp13756
        AB  - We study how childbirth increases the likelihood of young, working mothers to claim disability insurance and how paternity leave could ease this effect. Our event study analysis uses Belgian data to show that the incidence rate of disability across gender only diverges after first-time childbirth. This "other child penalty" can be reduced with the provision of paternity leave. Our regression discontinuity difference-in-differences design shows that mothers with partners eligible for a two-week-long paternity leave spent on average 21% fewer days on disability over twelve years. Moreover, we show links between this incidence of paternity leave and consequent birth-spacing decisions.
        KW  - disability insurance
KW  - gender
KW  - child penalty
KW  - paternity leave
KW  - maternal health
KW  - birth spacing
KW  - natural experiment
KW  - regression discontinuity
KW  - event study
        ER  -