Sevrin Waights

Applied Microeconomist. Labour, Family, Gender, Urban. Guest professor @HumboldtUni and researcher at @DIW_Berlin.

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👉 Read the full paper here (free-access link): https://t.co/rzRhT1e9b8

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🚨 New research insight on parental leave, gender inequality, and family policy in Germany 🚨

Recently accepted at The Economic Journal 🎉

Using tax return data, I study what happens when mothers’ parental leave benefits are capped at €1,800/month.

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💡 Big picture:
- Family policy can re-shape household roles with lasting effects on gender inequality.
- Very generous benefits may actually discourage female labor force participation among high earners.
- Early father involvement is key to reducing the motherhood penalty.

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@pauldrisley @SethAbramson Fish and chips

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@anselmhager Are those 90% and 95% CIs?

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@HistorianZhang @KhoaVuUmn I see it as Sunak the econometrician, and Meloni the (enthusiastic) applied economist

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@jaredcrubin Possibly a negative pre-trend which might actually make it look like an effect

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@someguyjack @jburnmurdoch I think the lines give the difference from average millennial wealth, so they’re normalised to make average millennial wealth zero.

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@ArielKarlinsky @kareem_carr Depends what gender gap you’re talking about. You can look at the raw gap in annual earnings, or only focus on wages of full time workers, or compare hourly wages. Those are all ‘unadjusted’ but actually adjust for working time. And then there’s the adjusted gaps

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@ArielKarlinsky @kareem_carr I mean there’s the unadjusted pay gap which might be around 70% and then there’s much smaller differences for ‘the same work’. I think she’s talking about the latter.

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@ArielKarlinsky @kareem_carr Where do they say “for the exact same work”? I’ve not seen that

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@instrumenthull Non-compliance. The bigger the non-compliance, the more scaling up of estimates

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@ScottBarkowski @coulsoncommaed That was my reading, too. They’re not requiring estimates to be significant.

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@BarbaraBiasi As in fuzzy RD? This one jumps to mind https://t.co/XluJBA7l2m

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@DominikGutt @PHuenermund @dade_us Excuse the bad sketch but according to the idea of eyeballing a linear trend then this figure would also show an effect?

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@ryanbedwards @jenniferdoleac @john_voorheis Also this one

https://t.co/Q3vsqfauij

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@tkejlboom @jmhorp I think you’re looking at all families. Scroll down to married with kids