We address the relationship between family policies and fertility in Norway, including three somewhat different policies: parental leave, formal childcare, and the childcare cash benefit. Norwegian family policy has been considered dualistic, giving priority to both dual-earner support and general family support. Our data are administrative register data covering the period 1995–2002. The analy...

Progress towards gender equality involves changes in the traditional parental division - female caring and male breadwinning. One aspect is increased parental leave for fathers, which may benefit the health of mothers, children, and fathers themselves. We examined how social and health characteristics (2002) were associated with paternity leave in excess of the 'father quota' of 60 days (2003-2...

In 2006, Quebec enacted a landmark reform to paid parental leave that greatly improved the generosity of entitlements and established a father’s non-transferable right to paid leave. Using data from the Employment Insurance Coverage Survey and employing a difference-in-differences setup, I find that the reform was associated with a striking rise in fathers participation: an increase of 59 perce...

BACKGROUND Preventive health care services, such as cancer screening can be particularly vulnerable to a lack of paid leave from work since care is not being sought for illness or symptoms. We first describe the prevalence of paid sick leave by broad occupational categories and then examine the association between access to paid sick leave and cancer testing and medical care-seeking in the U.S....

We examine the growth and welfare effects of parental leave subsidization in a life-cycle dynastic model with human capital externality. Such externality causes higher fertility, less time expenditure on child capital, lower than efficient levels. Efficient policies require subsidizing work leave, which includes labor income financed by lump-sum tax. Calibration based U.S. data implies that ful...