Lindström, Elly-Ann - In: Journal of Family and Economic Issues 34 (2013) 2, pp. 235-248
This paper estimates the effect of child gender on mothers’ and fathers’ parental leave using population-wide register data from Statistics Sweden and the Swedish Social Insurance Agency. The results showed that a first-born son increased fathers’ parental leave with 0.6 days (1.5 %) and...