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In 2006, Quebec enacted a landmark reform to paid parental leave that greatly improved the generosity of entitlements and established a father’s non-transferable right to paid leave. Using data from the Employment Insurance Coverage Survey and employing a dierence-in-dier ences setup, I nd that the reform was associated with a striking rise in fathers’ participation: an increase of 52 percentage points in fathers’ participation rates and an increase in fathers’ leave duration by 3 weeks. Further, there is evidence of an intra-household ypaper eect via the labeling of leave as ‘daddy-only’, i.e., the allocation of leave within a household appears to be inuenced by the framing of legal rights even when they do not bind. The reform was associated with an increase of 11 percentage points in mothers’ participation rates, and the duration of the average maternity leave increased by over half a month under the new program. I nd no change in mothers’ exit rates from the labor market on average but do nd an increase in the probability of returning to the pre-birth employer if her husband took leave. The reform was also associated with a reduction in the average income loss experienced by households in the month following the birth. |
