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To motivate fathers to take parental leave, several nations have reformed their leave programs to increase compensation and reserve some leave for fathers. Though takeup has increased, it is unclear whether fathers are responding to nancial incentives or changed constraints or the ‘daddy-only’ labels. Moreover, although paternity leave may facilitate temporary changes in the division of household labor, little is known about whether these eects persist in later years. This paper examines these issues while studying the Quebec Parental Insurance Program (QPIP), a landmark reform to parental leave that increased benets for all parents and reserved some weeks for fathers. I exploit plausibly exogenous program variation and data on benet |
