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PL: Effect of parental leave policy

Description

Data to analyze the effect of the 1990 Austrian parental leave reform on fertility and postbirth labor market careers. The data originate from the Austrian Social Security Database (ASSD) and where prepared by Lalive and Zweimueller (2009). The sample includes 6'180 women giving a childbirth (the first birth recorded in the ASSD data) between June and July 1990 and were eligible to benefit from the parental leave program.

Usage

data(PL)

Arguments

source

Austrian Social Security Database (ASSD). The data set is also available from https://sites.google.com/site/rafaellalive/research

Details

The data are described in Lalive and Zweimueller (2009).

References

Lalive, R. and Zweimueller, J. (2009), How does parental leave affect fertility and return to work? Evidence from two natural experiments. The Quarterly Journal of Economics.