Paid childcare leave, fertility, and female labor supply in South Korea

Kyeongkuk Kim, Sang-Hyop Lee and Timothy Halliday
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Kyeongkuk Kim: Ministry of Economy and Finance

Review of Economics of the Household, 2023, vol. 21, issue 4, No 11, 1433-1451

Abstract: Abstract We consider the effects of a paid childcare leave subsidy on maternal behavior in South Korea using a difference-in-difference design and a fertility survey with information on conception, contraception, and labor supply arrangements. Childcare subsidies increased conception and decreased contraception—an important mechanism for manipulating fertility. The arc elasticities of the responses of conception and contraception to the childcare subsidy are 0.65 and −0.10, respectively. However, we do not find systematic effects on employment arrangements. In a country with the lowest total fertility rate in the world and that often performs middling in rankings of gender inequality, we conclude that paid childcare leave for working women confers some positive benefits.

Keywords: Childcare leave; Fertility; Labor supply; Korea (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J13 J18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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