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Does paternity leave matter for female employment in developing economies? Evidence from firm-level data

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  • Mohammad Amin
  • Asif Islam
  • Alena Sakhonchik

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Analysis using firm-level data for a sample of 33,302 firms in 53 developing countries shows that women’s employment among private firms is significantly higher in countries that mandate paternity leave versus those that do not. A conservative estimate suggests an increase of 6.8 percentage points in the proportion of women workers associated with mandating paternity leave. The empirical specification is immune to spurious correlations that affect the level of women and men employment equally and also robust to a large number of controls for country and firm characteristics.

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  • Mohammad Amin & Asif Islam & Alena Sakhonchik, 2016. "Does paternity leave matter for female employment in developing economies? Evidence from firm-level data," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 23(16), pages 1145-1148, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:23:y:2016:i:16:p:1145-1148
    DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2016.1139669
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    1. Vu, Khoa & Glewwe, Paul, 2022. "Maternity benefits mandate and women’s choice of work in Vietnam," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 158(C).
    2. Guillaume Perilleux, 2022. "Time and Money spent on Children: Effect of the (Grand)Parents’ Education and Substitution within Time Allocations," Working Papers ECARES 2022-04, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
    3. Lo, Ashley Wan-Tzu & Kono, Tatsuhito, 2023. "Measuring the Gender Differences in Value of Time by Household Life Stage: An Intertemporal Analysis based on Japan Household Panel Survey," MPRA Paper 116111, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Duffy, Sarah & van Esch, Patrick & Yousef, Murooj, 2020. "Increasing parental leave uptake: A systems social marketing approach," Australasian marketing journal, Elsevier, vol. 28(2), pages 110-118.

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