Do Family Policies Reduce Gender Inequality? Evidence from 60 Years of Policy Experimentation
利用奥地利半个多世纪的行政数据，通过准实验方法识别所有家庭政策改革对男女收入的影响，发现产假和育儿服务的巨大扩张对性别收入趋同几乎没有作用。
Do family policies reduce gender inequality in the labor market? We contribute to this debate by investigating the joint impact of parental leave and childcare, using administrative data covering Austrian workers over more than half a century. We start by quasi-experimentally identifying the causal effects of all family policy reforms since the 1950s on the full dynamics of male and female earnings. We then map these causal estimates into a decomposition framework to compute counterfactual gender inequality series. Our results show that the enormous expansions of parental leave and childcare have had virtually no impact on gender convergence.