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Venue address: ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics & Management, R. Francesinhas 21, 1200-675 Lisboa, Portugal
Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 17th Sept 2026, 11:40:00am WEST
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C06: Gender, Parental Leave, and the Child Penalty Location: Room 106 (Francesinhas 1) | |
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The Impact of Parental Leave Benefits on Pre-Birth Earnings 1: LMU Munich, Germany; 2: Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria; 3: University of St. Gallen, Switzerland We study how policy incentives affect women’s labor supply before childbirth, a relevant period for gender gaps in employment and earnings. We exploit a major German parental benefit reform in 2007 that replaced a flat transfer with an earnings-related benefit, strengthening incentives to earn income prior to birth. Using administrative data on the universe of first-time mothers and a difference-in-income-trends design, we find three main results. Women on average reduce labor supply in the year before childbirth. The reform causally increased pre-birth labor supply: earnings rose by up to 50 percent and labor market exit declined by about 5 percentage points, with stronger effects for low-income and married women. We provide suggestive evidence that increased pre-birth labor supply is associated with higher post-birth earnings and employment. Our findings show that earnings-related benefits can induce sizable anticipatory labor supply responses, providing broader implications for the design of wage-replacement policies.
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