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Extended Parental Leave in the GDR: Children Show Higher Life Satisfaction in the Long Run

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  • Katharina Heisig
  • Larissa Zierow

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Previous studies on parental leave reforms come to different conclusions as to what extent parental leave influences child development. Our study is based on a parental leave reform in the former GDR from 1986. In the GDR, there was no specific selec-tion of women into the labor market or insufficient or heterogeneous childcare pro-vision. In taking this approach, we avoid methodological problems that other stud-ies on parental leave reforms face. We find significant and robust positive effects on the life satisfaction of now-adult children.

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  • Katharina Heisig & Larissa Zierow, 2020. "Extended Parental Leave in the GDR: Children Show Higher Life Satisfaction in the Long Run," ifo Dresden berichtet, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, vol. 27(02), pages 07-09, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:ces:ifodre:v:27:y:2020:i:02:p:07-09
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