Bratsberg, Bernt; Walther, Selma - 2024
Leveraging the first Covid-19 lockdown in Norway as a laboratory for an increase in work flexibility, we uncover a … significant and persistent increase in births nine months later. Using the Goldin (2014) measure of work flexibility based on … flexibility prior to lockdown. We formalise and develop the intuition of Goldin (2014) in a theoretical model where greedy work …