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Do Family Policies Reduce Gender Inequality? Evidence from 60 Years of Policy Experimentation / Henrik Kleven, Camille Landais, Johanna Posch, Andreas Steinhauer, Josef Zweimüller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kleven, Henrik.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w28082.
- NBER working paper series no. w28082
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2020.
- Summary:
- Do family policies reduce gender inequality in the labor market? We contribute to this debate by investigating the joint impact of parental leave and child care, using administrative data covering the labor market and birth histories of Austrian workers over more than half a century. We start by quasi-experimentally identifying the causal effects of all family policy reforms since the 1950s, including the introduction of maternal leave benefits in 1961, on the full dynamics of male and female earnings. We then use these causal estimates to compute gender inequality series for counterfactual scenarios regarding the evolution of family policies. Our results show that the enormous expansions of parental leave and child care subsidies have had virtually no impact on gender convergence.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- November 2020.
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