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Home | Events Archive | Family Matters: Parental Leave and the Intergenerational Transmission of Skills
Seminar

Family Matters: Parental Leave and the Intergenerational Transmission of Skills


  • Series
  • Speaker(s)
    Daniel Avdic (Monash Business School, Australia)
  • Field
    Empirical Microeconomics
  • Location
    Erasmus University, Polak Building, Room 2-14
    Rotterdam
  • Date and time

    June 24, 2019
    12:00 - 13:00

Abstract:

We contribute to the literature on intergenerational skill transmission by studying how children’s cognitive abilities are affected by an increased parenting role of the father. To obtain plausible exogenous variation in father’s involvement, we exploit empirical variation from a “daddy month” reform in Sweden, which gave additional economic incentives for families to substitute paid leave from the mother to the father, in a difference in regression discontinuity design. We find evidence that boys to low (high) educated fathers who were born just after the reform was implemented had about 0.1 standard deviations lower (higher) compulsory schooling leaving grades compared to children born just before the threshold. Our findings may advise policy to counter increased inequality from parents’ socioeconomic status.