TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Kim, Kyeongkuk
AU  - Lee, Sang-Hyop
AU  - Halliday, Timothy J.
        TI  - Paid Childcare Leave, Fertility, and Female Labor Supply in South Korea
        PY  - 2022/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 15223
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp15223
        AB  - We consider the effects of a paid childcare leave subsidy on maternal behavior in South Korea using a difference-in-difference design and a fertility survey with information on conception, contraception, and labor supply arrangements. Childcare subsidies increased conception and decreased contraception. The arc elasticities of the responses of conception and contraception to the childcare subsidy are 0.65 and -0.10, respectively. However, we do not find effects on employment arrangements. In a country with the lowest total fertility rate in the world and that often performs middling in rankings of gender inequality, we conclude that paid childcare leave for working women confers some positive benefits.
        KW  - childcare leave
KW  - fertility
KW  - labor supply
KW  - Korea
        ER  -