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 Finance, South Korea

No 202104, Working Papers from University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Economics

Abstract: We consider the effects of a paid childcare leave subsidy on maternal behavior in South Korea. We employ both difference-in-difference and regression kink techniques. The subsidies had very large behavioral effects. Regression kink estimates indicate that an extra dollar of the monthly subsidy (on annual basis) increased conceptions by 0.06-0.08 percentage points. Difference-in-difference estimates indicate that paid leave subsidies also increased permanent working arrangements by ten percentage points for lower earning women and four percentage points for higher earning women. 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 positive benefits.

Keywords: intergenerational health mobility; mental health; physical health; United Kingdom (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J13 J18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-08
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