The state intervenes in the battle of the sexes: Causal effects of paternity leave |
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Authors: | Andreas Kotsadam Henning Finseraas |
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Institution: | a Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, Box 640, SE-405 30, Gothenburg, Sweden b Norwegian Social Research, P.O. Box 3223 Elisenberg, N-0208 Oslo, Norway |
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Abstract: | Do family policies influence attitudes and behavior or are they merely reflections of pre-existing attitudes? We consider the implementation of the Norwegian daddy quota, 4 weeks of parental leave reserved for the father, as a natural experiment, and examine the long-run causal effects on attitudes toward gender equality, on conflicts and sharing of household labor, and on support for public childcare. We find that respondents who had their last born child just after the reform report an 11% lower level of conflicts over household division of labor and that they are 50% more likely to equally divide the task of washing clothes than respondents who had their last child just before the reform. |
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Keywords: | Parental leave Natural experiment Household work Gender equality |
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