The Impact of Paid Parental Leave on Fertility Intentions*

Autor:	Hayley Fisher, Micaela Bassford
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	fertility family policy Economics and Econometrics media_common.quotation_subject Total fertility rate 05 social sciences Parental leave Fertility Primary carer Private sector fertility intentions Margin (finance) 0502 economics and business Economics Demographic economics 050207 economics Minimum wage 1402 Applied Economics Developed country 050205 econometrics media_common
Zdroj:	Economic Record
ISSN:	1475-4932 0013-0249
Popis:	Paid parental leave is an important part of family policy in OECD countries. Australia's Paid Parental Leave scheme was introduced in 2011 and provides 18 weeks of leave paid at the full‐time minimum wage for the primary carer of a child. We estimate the effect of access to paid parental leave on women's fertility intentions by exploiting the differential impact of the scheme for women working in the public and private sectors. We find that the scheme's announcement had no impact on fertility intentions at the extensive margin but that, conditional on intending to have at least one (more) child, the number of children intended increases by 0.34, a 16 per cent increase. This effect is concentrated among highly educated women. As it has been shown that fertility intentions predict fertility outcomes, these results suggest that even modest paid parental leave programs can increase the fertility of working women and so moderate the declines in fertility rates seen in many developed countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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