Dear colleagues, in the name of the Department of Economics, I cordially invite you to our research seminar 26th of May, 2021, 4pm: Arizo Karimi https://sites.google.com/site/arizokarimi/ <https://sites.google.com/site/arizokarimi/> Parental Inputs and Child Outcomes - Evidence from a Paternity Leave Reform Abstract: This paper exploits the introduction of a Swedish “daddy-month” reform in a difference-in-discontinuities design to study how fathers’ parental leave affects children’s human capital. Results show that the reform improved average compulsory school-leaving GPAs of sons of college educated fathers by 0.06 standard deviations, while GPAs of sons of non-college educated fathers declined by 0.05 standard deviations. We estimate that the reform increased intergenerational persistence of human capital by ten percent for boys with no corresponding effects for girls. We provide suggestive evidence that these results are linked to asymmetric impacts on family stability and role model effects. Arizo Karimi is Associate Professor of Economics, Uppsala University. Her research is on the link between the economics of the family and the labor market analysis. She obtained her PhD from Uppsala University in 2014. Selected publications: * "Modern Family? Paternity Leave and Marital Stability" with Daniel Avdic, 2018, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics * "Worker Absenteeism: Peer Influences, Monitoring, and Job Flexibility" with J Peter Nilsson, and Per Johansson, 2019, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A * "Parental Leave Benefits, Household Labor Supply, and Children’s Long-run Outcomes" with Rita Ginja and Jenny Jans, 2020, Journal of Labor Economics Please register at https://www.jku.at/en/department-of-economics/research/research-events/onlin... <https://www.jku.at/en/department-of-economics/research/research-events/online-research-seminar/> for the zoom link. With best regards, René Böheim -- PD René Böheim, PhD Department of Economics JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITÄT LINZ Altenberger Straße 69 4040 Linz, Österreich P +43-732-2468-7369 www.econ.jku.at/boeheim <http://www.econ.jku.at/boeheim> Research: http://ideas.repec.org/e/pbh15.html <http://ideas.repec.org/e/pbh15.html>