Do Family Policies Reduce Gender Inequality? Evidence from 60 Years of Policy Experimentation

Henrik Kleven, Camille Landais, Johanna Posch, Andreas Steinhauer and Josef Zweimüller
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Henrik Kleven: Princeton University
Johanna Posch: Analysis Group
Andreas Steinhauer: University of Edinburgh
Josef Zweimüller: University of Zurich
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Josef Zweimüller ()

Working Papers from Princeton University. Economics Department.

Abstract: Do family policies reduce gender inequality in the labor market? We contribute to this debate by investigating the joint impact of parental leave and child care, using administrative data covering the labor market and birth histories of Austrian workers over more than half a century. We start by quasi-experimentally identifying the causal effects of all family policy reforms since the 1950s on the full dynamics of male and female earnings. We then map these causal estimates into a decomposition framework building on Kleven, Landais and Søgaard (2019) to compute counterfactual gender inequality series. Our results show that the enormous expansions of parental leave and child care subsidies have had virtually no impact on gender convergence.

Keywords: Family; Gender Inequality; Austria (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-01
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