at aiding families. The outcomes of interest are female employment, gender gaps in earnings and fertility. We begin with … gender outcomes. Most estimates of the impact of parental leave entitlement on female labor market outcomes range from …

Gender wage and employment gaps are negatively correlated across countries. We argue that non-random selection of women … consistent with low gender wage gaps simply because low-wage women would not feature in the observed wage distribution. We … explore this idea across the US and EU by estimating gender gaps in potential wages. We recover information on wages for those …