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using more than zero days is 3.7 times higher in the treatment group
compared with the control group and there is a statistically significant
higher risk in the treatment group of using up to more than 30 days, but
not more than five weeks of parental leave. The effect is to a large extent
dependent on a shift from not using any or only a few days of parental
leave before the reform to using approximately 30 parental leave days, that
is, the reserved month.
The results for the second reserved month are presented in the second
column of Table 3. The estimates show that the treatment group has higher
risk of any use up to more than 60 days, but not more than nine weeks of
parental leave days, thus, the two reserved months. Similarly to after the
introduction of the first reserved month there is a clear shift, but instead of
using approximately 30 days, the fathers use more than 30 days and up to
about 60 days of parental leave.
Turning to the potential effect of the gender equality bonus we do not find
any shift of the same magnitude and there is no statistically significant
higher risk of more usage at any point in time when we compare the
treatment group with the control group.
Table 3
Risk of least number of earnings-related parental leave days, odds
ratios. Estimate of being in the treatment group compared with control group.
First reserved
month
Second reserved
month
Gender equality
bonus
>0 days
3.71***
1.23**
1.06
>1 week
3.69***
1.27***
1.06
>2 weeks
3.45***
1.32***
1.05
>3 weeks
3.13***
1.42***
1.01
>4 weeks
2.41***
1.48***
1.00
>30 days
1.41***
1.67***
1.00
>5 weeks
1.01
1.64***
1.01
>6 weeks
0.95
1.66***
0.99
>7 weeks
0.96
1.66***
1.00
>8 weeks
0.95
1.54***
1.05
>60 days
0.96
1.23**
1.12
>9 weeks
0.97
1.15
1.11
>10 weeks
0.94
1.03
1.16
>11 weeks
0.94
0.99
1.12
>12 weeks
0.93
0.99
1.10
>13 weeks
0.94
0.96
1.05
*** Significant difference (1 percent level) between control and treatment groups.
** Significant difference (5 percent level) between control and treatment groups.
