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Maternal Addiction to Parental Leave

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  • Engström, Per

    () (Department of Economics, Uppsala University)

  • Kolm, Ann-Sofie

    () (Dept. of Economics, Stockholm University)

  • Liang, Che-Yuan

    () (Department of Economics, Uppsala University)

Abstract

The increased demand for a more equal parental sharing of the responsibilities for children has led many countries to reconstruct their parental leave systems so to provide stronger incentives for fathers to participate in childcare. Father’s quotas are becoming widely spread across Europe. This paper provides arguments for why it may be welfare improving for both parents to increase the father’s share of the family’s parental leave time. However, regulations in terms of father’s quotas may not be optimal since it fails to recognise potentially heterogenous preferences. Instead, self-commitment devices should be provided in order to prevent mothers from taking too large share of the family’s leave time.

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Paper provided by Stockholm University, Department of Economics in its series Research Papers in Economics with number 2006:9.

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Length: 18 pages
Date of creation: 03 Dec 2006
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Handle: RePEc:hhs:sunrpe:2006_0009

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  1. Ohlsson, Henry, 2009. "The legacy of the Swedish gift and inheritance tax, 1884-2004," Working Paper Series, Center for Fiscal Studies 2009:13, Uppsala University, Department of Economics.
  2. Alexius, Annika & Holmlund, Bertil, 2008. "Monetary policy and Swedish unemployment fluctuations," Working Paper Series 2008:5, IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy.
  3. Meredith Beechey & Par Osterholm, 2007. "The rise and fall of U.S. inflation persistence," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2007-26, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
  4. Blomquist, Sören & Christiansen, Vidar, 2007. "Public Provision of Private Goods and Nondistortionary Marginal Tax Rates," Working Paper Series 2007:7, Uppsala University, Department of Economics.
  5. Kjellberg, David & Post, Erik, 2007. "A Critical Look at Measures of Macroeconomic Uncertainty," Working Paper Series 2007:14, Uppsala University, Department of Economics.

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