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Do Family Values Shape the Pace to Return to Work after Childbirth?

This paper argues that the pace to return to work after childbirth is not independent of family values. I evaluate the effect of a parental leave policy reform in Germany in 2007-aimed at incentivizing an earlier return to work - on the return to work of mothers who hold different family values. Using a regression discontinuity design and an epidemiological approach to family values I find that although the policy has substantially increased the pace to return to work of mothers regardless of their family values, mothers upholding traditional family values keep returning to work at a slower pace than mothers with liberal family values.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 5185

Classification
Wirtschaft
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
Cultural Economics; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology: General
Subject
parental leave
family values
female labour supply
epidemiological approach

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Borrell-Porta, Mireia
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(where)
Munich
(when)
2015

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  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Borrell-Porta, Mireia
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Time of origin

  • 2015

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