TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Houmark, Mikkel Aagaard
AU  - Jørgensen, Cecilie Marie Løchte
AU  - Kristiansen, Ida Lykke
AU  - Gensowski, Miriam
        TI  - Effects of Extending Paid Parental Leave on Children's Socio-Emotional Skills and Well-Being in Adolescence
        PY  - 2022/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 15421
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp15421
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - parental leave
KW  - early childhood
KW  - skill formation
KW  - parental investments
KW  - socio-emotional skills
KW  - personality
KW  - well-being
KW  - adolescence
        ER  -