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Part-time Parental Leave and Life Satisfaction: Evidence from the Netherlands
There is extensive literature on the relationship between having children and life satisfaction. Although parenthood can provide meaningfulness in...
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When is it About the Money? Relative Wages and Fathers’ Parental Leave Decisions
Policy-makers in many countries increasingly voice concerns about fathers’ low uptake of parental leave, given numerous potential dividends regarding...
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Parental Leave and Fertility: Individual-Level Responses in the Tempo and Quantum of Second and Third Births
Previous studies have documented varying fertility responses to changes in parental leave provisions. We contribute to this literature by...
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Parental leave policies, work (re)entry, and second birth: Do differences between migrants and non-migrants in Germany increase?
The paper investigates migrant–nonmigrant differentials over time among women in Germany after their first childbirth; we look at the transitions to...
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Is Leave for Fathers Pronatalist? A Mixed-Methods Study of the Impact of Fathers’ Uptake of Parental Leave on Couples’ Childbearing Intentions in South Korea
While many countries with low birth rates have implemented policies incentivizing fathers to take parental leave with the anticipation that it will...
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Can Daddies Learn to Care for Babies? The Effect of A Short Paternity Leave on the Division of Childcare and Housework
To foster gender equality and involve fathers in parenting, leave-from-work targeted at fathers has been implemented in many countries. In France,...
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Engaging Fathers in the Childcare Through Paternity Leave in Bangladesh
This chapter examines the rationale of paternity leave in the context of Bangladesh. Unlike many Nordic and European countries in the world, the...
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Defamiliarising Family Benefits and Leave Policies
One dimension to understanding the relative constraints and opportunities women face in labour markets across the OECD is the extent of expenditure...
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On Duty or Diaper Duty? Impacts of Job Satisfaction, Perceptions of Organizational Support, Stigma, and Leader-Member Exchange on Paternity Leave-Taking Intentions
Given the mounting social and governmental support for better paternity leave options in the United States, it is surprising that a recent national...
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Policy and Fertility, a Case Study of the Quebec Parental Insurance Plan
In 2006, the Quebec government implemented a parental leave program more generous than the scheme available through the Canadian federal Employment...
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Gender Differences in the Intended Use of Parental Leave: Implications for Human Capital Development
This study examined gender differences in the intended use of parental leave benefits. In a targeted sample of relevant adult respondents (i.e.,...
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Union Experience and Stability of Parental Unions in Sweden and Norway
In this chapter, we investigate the contribution of changes in union experience to increases in parental separation. We ask whether increases in...
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The Parental Club: 2029
This chapter is a speculative future online meeting between members of a national network for parents at work during a possible future where the...
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Who Benefits from Parental Leave Policies? A Comparison Between Nordic and Southern European Countries
The aim of the chapter is to explore parental leave policies in two European welfare clusters: the Nordic and the Southern European ones. The...
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On the changes of the intention to leave the parental home during the COVID-19 pandemic: a comparison among five European countries
With the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Europe during the first months of 2020, most of the governments imposed restrictive measures to people...
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Parental Migration in Childhood and Individual Wellbeing in Adulthood
Parental absence due to parental migration has been a prevalent phenomenon in develo** countries, occurring on an exceptionally large scale in...
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Does Paid Family Leave Cause Mothers to Have More Children? Evidence from California
Literature on the labor market and health effects of paid family leave largely overlooks the impacts on fertility, particularly in the United States....
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Inequalities in Resources for Preschool-Age Children by Parental Education: Evidence from Six Advanced Industrialized Countries
This paper provides new evidence on inequalities in resources for children age 3–4 by parental education using harmonized data from six advanced...
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Supporting Fathers to Prevent Child Maltreatment: How Paid Family Leave and Child Care Subsidies Are Part of a Public Health Approach
There are multiple components of a public health approach for preventing child maltreatment. One of these components is the question of who to...
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Leaving Home for Marital and Non-marital Reasons in the Netherlands, 1850–1940: The Impact of Parental Death and Parental Remarriage
Previous research shows that parentally bereaved children in north-western Europe in the past left home earlier than children who lived together with...
