TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Ekberg, John
AU  - Eriksson, Rickard
AU  - Friebel, Guido
        TI  - Parental Leave – A Policy Evaluation of the Swedish "Daddy-Month" Reform
        PY  - 2005/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 1617
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp1617
        AB  - Many countries are trying to incentivize fathers to increase their share in parental leave and in household work to improve female labor market opportunities. Our unique data set stems from a natural experiment in Sweden. The data comprises all children born before (control group) and after the reform (treatment group) in cohorts of up to 27,000 newborns, mothers and fathers. We find strong short term effects of incentives on male parental leave. However, we find no learning-by doing, or specialization, effects: fathers in the treatment group do not have larger shares in the leave taken for care of sick children, which is our measure for household work.
        KW  - gender and labor
KW  - family benefits
KW  - natural experiment
KW  - incentives
        ER  -