Paternity leave and child outcomes

Daniel Avdic (), Arizo Karimi, Anna Sjögren () and Elin Sundberg
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Arizo Karimi: Uppsala universitet and UCLS
Anna Sjögren: IFAU and UCLS, Postal: Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy, P O Box 513, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden
Elin Sundberg: Uppsala universitet

No 2023:25, Working Paper Series from IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy

Abstract: We study how fathers’ time impacts children’s human capital using the introduction of earmarked paternity leave in Sweden. We use administrative data on parents’ leave uptake and children’s educational outcomes in a difference-in-discontinuities design, exploiting the plausibly random timing of childbirth. We show that the reform decreased average school-leaving grade point averages of sons of non-college fathers by 0.07 standard deviations and increased intergenerational persistence of human capital by 30 percent. We give suggestive evidence that these findings are explained by asymmetric impacts on parents’ time investments owing to family disruptions and (lack of) substitutability of parents’ time inputs.

Keywords: parental leave; socioeconomic gradient; social policy; intergenerational skill transmission; regression discontinuity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J12 J13 J16 J18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 70 pages
Date: 2023-12-22
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