How Can Paid Maternity Leave Boost Female Entrepreneurship?

This paper reveals that providing mothers with a higher maternity leave allowance raises their probability of becoming self-employed after childbirth. Using administrative data from Belgium between 2002-2015 and a Regression Kink Design, I estimate that a 900-euro increase in allowance raises the pr...

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Autor: Fontenay, Sebastien Renaud Ludovic|||0000-0003-2279-5660
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Alcalá (UAH)
Repositorio:e_Buah Biblioteca Digital Universidad de Alcalá
Idioma:inglés
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Palabra clave:Maternity leave allowance
Self-employment
Fertility
Regression kink
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J16
J22
Economía
Economics
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spelling How Can Paid Maternity Leave Boost Female Entrepreneurship?Fontenay, Sebastien Renaud Ludovic|||0000-0003-2279-5660Maternity leave allowanceSelf-employmentFertilityRegression kinkJ13J16J22EconomíaEconomicsThis paper reveals that providing mothers with a higher maternity leave allowance raises their probability of becoming self-employed after childbirth. Using administrative data from Belgium between 2002-2015 and a Regression Kink Design, I estimate that a 900-euro increase in allowance raises the probability of becoming self-employed by six percentage points. Regarding self-employed mothers? incentives, I find evidence that the allowance might lift financial constraints for those residing in provinces with poor access to banks. I also reveal a positive effect on higher-order births and argue that self-employed mothers might seek flexible work arrangements when they worked in less family-friendly sectors.Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and the Spanish State Research Agency20242024-01-08journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501NAhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_be7fb7dd8ff6fe43info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10017/67645https://dx.doi.org/10.3368/jhr.0123-12727R2reponame:e_Buah Biblioteca Digital Universidad de Alcaláinstname:Universidad de Alcalá (UAH)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:ebuah.uah.es:10017/676452026-06-18T11:13:07Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv How Can Paid Maternity Leave Boost Female Entrepreneurship?
title How Can Paid Maternity Leave Boost Female Entrepreneurship?
spellingShingle How Can Paid Maternity Leave Boost Female Entrepreneurship?
Fontenay, Sebastien Renaud Ludovic|||0000-0003-2279-5660
Maternity leave allowance
Self-employment
Fertility
Regression kink
J13
J16
J22
Economía
Economics
title_short How Can Paid Maternity Leave Boost Female Entrepreneurship?
title_full How Can Paid Maternity Leave Boost Female Entrepreneurship?
title_fullStr How Can Paid Maternity Leave Boost Female Entrepreneurship?
title_full_unstemmed How Can Paid Maternity Leave Boost Female Entrepreneurship?
title_sort How Can Paid Maternity Leave Boost Female Entrepreneurship?
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Fontenay, Sebastien Renaud Ludovic|||0000-0003-2279-5660
author Fontenay, Sebastien Renaud Ludovic|||0000-0003-2279-5660
author_facet Fontenay, Sebastien Renaud Ludovic|||0000-0003-2279-5660
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Maternity leave allowance
Self-employment
Fertility
Regression kink
J13
J16
J22
Economía
Economics
topic Maternity leave allowance
Self-employment
Fertility
Regression kink
J13
J16
J22
Economía
Economics
description This paper reveals that providing mothers with a higher maternity leave allowance raises their probability of becoming self-employed after childbirth. Using administrative data from Belgium between 2002-2015 and a Regression Kink Design, I estimate that a 900-euro increase in allowance raises the probability of becoming self-employed by six percentage points. Regarding self-employed mothers? incentives, I find evidence that the allowance might lift financial constraints for those residing in provinces with poor access to banks. I also reveal a positive effect on higher-order births and argue that self-employed mothers might seek flexible work arrangements when they worked in less family-friendly sectors.
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